Niall Downie
Head Of Technology at LiveLink Technology
Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarNiall Downie is a seasoned technology leader with 13 years of experience building and running high‑availability platforms for customers from a $150M/year retail photo business to a $6B systematic hedge fund. As Head of Technology he combines hands‑on engineering with servant leadership, coaching a multi‑team organisation through cloud migrations, Kanban adoption and CI/CD transformations that cut cycle times and reduced service impact during peak seasons. He’s pragmatic about data‑driven iteration, using historical metrics to predict and improve delivery while negotiating cloud contracts and operational savings. A contributor to Chart.js documentation and front‑end samples, he retains practical engineering chops alongside strategic delivery skills. Based in Portsmouth, he’s known for creating cross‑functional teams, running internal hackathons and turning technical debt into measurable business value.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (5)
html10
javascript10
chartjs10
canvas10
documentation9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
chartjs/Chart.js
Mar 2013 - Sep 2016
Simple HTML5 Charts using the <canvas> tag
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 114 commits, 22 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Niall primarily contributed to the project's documentation site. Their commits added the documentation site, then the index site, and finally cleared up the folder structure for the samples. Further modifications included fixing a radar rotation issue, as well as updating the Chart.js file in the samples.
chartscharthtml5-chartscanvasjavascript
chartjs/www.chartjs.org
Mar 2016 - May 2017
Chart.js website
Contributions:54 commits in 1 year 2 months
chartcanvaschartjs-pluginchartjshtml5
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