Oscar Barrett is a seasoned technology leader with 11 years of experience, currently serving as Head of Technology at MyMoto in Perth, Australia. He has progressed through technical leadership roles—including Technical Director at MyMoto and Auto League—bringing hands-on engineering perspective to strategic product delivery. Oscar combines systems administration and full-stack development experience from early roles with modern leadership of engineering teams, shipping reliable web and mobility-focused platforms. An active open-source contributor, he enhanced accessibility, typings, and test coverage in a lightweight React carousel used for SSR and multi-item displays. Known for translating complex requirements into practical solutions, he balances pragmatic engineering with an emphasis on quality and accessibility. He holds a BSc in Computer Science from Curtin University.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at Curtin University
A lightweight production-ready Carousel that rocks supports multiple items and server-side rendering with no dependency. Bundle size 2kb.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 5 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Oscar focused on enhancing the `react-multi-carousel` component. They added functionality to skip individual callbacks when navigating slides. Furthermore, the user updated the typing for the component, and also added a comprehensive test suite to ensure correct behavior. They also added an `aria-label` to dots for accessibility.
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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