Liam Bigelow
Senior Platform Engineer
Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolLiam Bigelow is a Senior Platform Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building reliable, low-latency web platforms and developer-facing services from Dunedin, New Zealand. Currently at Fly.io after several progressive engineering and leadership roles at CloudCannon, he has deep experience across microservices, CMS platforms, and enterprise integrations. He contributes to open-source projects like pagefind, focusing on front-end search UI and browser test automation for low-bandwidth static search at scale. Comfortable switching between product-facing UI work and backend platform concerns, Liam pairs pragmatic engineering with attention to performance and developer experience. That blend of ecosystem stewardship and day-to-day coding—plus a background in Design for Technology from the University of Otago—makes him effective at shipping polished, production-ready systems.
7 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Design for Technology, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Design for Technology at University of Otago
Github Skills (10)
uid10
javascript10
svelte10
web-development10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
browser-testing9
html9
css9
testing8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
CloudCannon/pagefind
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Static low-bandwidth search at scale
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 52 reviews, 385 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Liam's commits primarily focus on the front-end development of the "pagefind" project, a static search solution. Their work involves implementing browser tests using Chromiumoxide for UI components, and integrating JavaScript code to serve the search functionality. Further work added styles and core UI components, including the integration of a search interface and modifications to a Svelte-based UI.
configurablebandwidthscalelow-bandwidthmultitenant
CloudCannon/sitefix
Oct 2022 - Feb 2025
Open source tool for auditing and fixing issues on built static sites
Contributions:4 PRs, 12 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 3 months
checkliststatic-sitessecuritylighthousesites
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