Glen Ainscow
Senior Software Engineer at ChilliCream
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolGlen Ainscow is a seasoned Senior Software Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building full-stack web applications, currently focused on backend GraphQL development in C#. He combines a strong emphasis on code quality—favoring statically typed languages, linters, and static analysis—with a habit of researching emerging standards to future-proof systems. Glen has led and modernized large product codebases (notably multiple generations of the GosuGamers platform), built serverless services in Node/TypeScript on AWS Lambda, and helped design a modular monolith using Hot Chocolate GraphQL. Comfortable across infrastructure, DevOps and application layers, he enjoys starting new projects and raising engineering standards through tooling, code review, and automated builds. Based in the Western Cape, South Africa, he brings a pragmatic, research-driven approach that favors durable engineering over flashy design.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
International Diploma, Internet Development Specialist, International Diploma, Internet Development Specialist at CTI Education GroupSenior Certificate, Senior Certificate at INTEC College
English
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Github Skills (200)
html-editor10
interop10
visual-studio10
vuejs210
openapi10
recaptcha10
localization10
api10
json10
delphi10
selector10
nodejs10
package-manager10
browsersync10
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Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
glen-84/graphql-platform
May 2022 - Oct 2024
Welcome to the home of the Hot Chocolate GraphQL server for .NET, the Strawberry Shake GraphQL client for .NET and Banana Cake Pop the awesome Monaco based GraphQL IDE.
Contributions:51 pushes, 45 branches in 2 years 5 months
popgraphql-serverbananashakemonaco
glen-84/DefinitelyTyped
Nov 2015 - Jun 2024
The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.
Contributions:30 pushes, 10 branches, 2 comments in 8 years 8 months
resolvecompilationtypescript-definitionstype-definitionshigh-quality
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