Trey Bastian
Tech Lead at CreateFuture
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTrey Bastian is a seasoned tech lead and entrepreneurial software engineer with 11 years of experience building product-focused engineering teams and shipping production systems. Based in Glasgow, he has led as Co-Founder & CTO of Firstbase, served in financial and enterprise environments at JPMorgan, and now splits time between freelance work and a tech lead role at CreateFuture. His background includes early startup founding and a disciplined technical foundation from a Computer Science degree at the University of Stirling, plus five years of service as a Staff Sergeant in the US Air Force, which informs his pragmatic leadership and operational rigor. Trey prefers to host code and conversation on his own infrastructure—his repositories live at git.treybastian.com and tangled.org—indicating a bias toward self-managed tooling and privacy. Colleagues know him for combining hands-on engineering with strategic product thinking and for favoring direct channels like Twitter over LinkedIn for professional connection.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Stirling
Github Skills (110)
effort10
responsive-table10
rows10
connected10
golang10
kotlin10
async9
dao9
database9
asynchronous9
docker9
expandable9
go9
cli8
mastodon8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
TreyBastian/colourize
May 2015 - Jul 2022
Contributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 22 pushes in 7 years 3 months
golangcliterminalansicolour
TreyBastian/.dotfiles
Aug 2024 - Mar 2025
All of my dotfiles -- Hope they help you building your configuration.
Contributions:1 PR, 58 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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