Dre Westcook
Software Developer at Kraken Technologies
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolDre Westcook is a software developer based in Sydney with 11 years of hands-on experience spanning backend development, IT administration, and retail technical leadership. Currently at Kraken Technologies, he brings a practical engineering background (B.Eng in Mechatronics) and a knack for reducing complexity through honest, improvement-focused work. Dre contributes to open-source tooling for interactive evaluation in Neovim, notably improving Common Lisp SWANK parsing and documentation lookup in the well-regarded conjure project. His career shows a strong operational bias—automating processes that saved hours and increased revenue—and an ability to bridge customer-facing troubleshooting with backend engineering. Comfortable in both team collaborations and conflict management, he prefers tangible impact and continuous refinement of systems. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic, honest, and quietly persistent in turning messy problems into reliable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma of Engineering, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Diploma of Engineering, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Skillstech TAFEBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, 5.87 GPA, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, 5.87 GPA at Queensland University of Technology
English
Github Skills (6)
clojure10
neovim10
common-lisp10
clojure-cli10
cider9
lua9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
Olical/conjure
Jan 2022 - Feb 2022
Interactive evaluation for Neovim (Clojure, Fennel, Janet, Racket, Hy, MIT Scheme, Guile, Python and more!)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 6 commits, 5 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Dre primarily focused on enhancing the Common Lisp client within the Neovim-based "conjure" project. Their contributions include implementing new parsing functions for SWANK output, specifically `inner-results` and `parse-separated-list`, which were then integrated into a `parse-result` function. These changes aimed to improve the handling of SWANK responses, extract relevant data, and provide feedback on potential errors during evaluation. They also introduced functions for documentation lookup and file loading.
deoplete-sourceunlicensenreplciderneovim
Dotrar/dotfiles
Jul 2021 - Oct 2023
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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