Ed Preston
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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RockstarEd Preston is a Melbourne-based systems and security engineer with 14 years of experience designing, automating, and deploying enterprise systems, backed by CISSP certification. He blends hands-on configuration and deployment expertise with software development skills, contributing front-end and build-process improvements to notable open-source projects like three.js and PlayCanvas. Comfortable across full-stack and infrastructure roles, he has a long track record as a solution and integration architect for organisations from universities to enterprise vendors. His contributions to three.js documentation and PlayCanvas example builds show a practical focus on developer experience and reproducible build processes. Interested in emerging technologies, he pairs a builder’s mindset with a security-first perspective to deliver well-documented, maintainable systems.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (34)
webgl10
javascript10
game-engine10
bootstrap10
css10
typescript10
build-system10
exporter10
typescript-types10
3d10
html10
exports10
bootstra10
typescripts10
documentation10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
playcanvas/engine
Dec 2022 - Oct 2023
Powerful web graphics runtime built on WebGL, WebGPU, WebXR and glTF
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:21 reviews, 42 PRs, 171 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Ed primarily focused on improving the examples and build processes for the PlayCanvas engine. Their contributions included updating dependencies, fixing build issues related to React and TypeScript, and addressing ESLint warnings. They also made changes to example code, including fixing typos, removing deprecated code, and updating the rendering of the examples. Furthermore, they updated the spine examples, and made some core changes to the engine's render.
javascript-gamejavascriptjavascript-game-engineplaycanvasnodejs
mrdoob/three.js
Dec 2022 - Nov 2023
JavaScript 3D Library.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:65 reviews, 43 PRs, 242 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Ed contributed to the documentation and examples for the three.js library, specifically focusing on the creation of documentation pages for exporter classes such as `GLTFExporter`, `DRACOExporter`, and `STLExporter`. They also updated existing documentation pages, fixed formatting, and added code examples for these exporters. Furthermore, the user made changes to the unit tests by stubbing tests and updating their structure.
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