David Ferguson
Software Development Engineer at Adobe
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Ferguson is a Software Development Engineer with 10 years' experience blending low-level systems work and full-stack web development, currently at Adobe and based in Edinburgh. He holds a First-class M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of St Andrews and has a track record migrating legacy platforms to modern Python stacks while running Linux build and test infrastructure. David contributes to open-source projects like pibakery—improving front-end UX and build processes for Raspberry Pi tooling—and has practical firmware and device-tree experience from Raspberry Pi internships. He pairs a curiosity for vintage hardware and film projection repair with disciplined independent delivery, having shipped production React applications and AWS-deployed services with Terraform. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful trade-offs between adopting new technologies and maintaining stable legacy systems.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master in Science (Honours), Computer Science, First, Master in Science (Honours), Computer Science, First at University of St Andrews
Github Skills (11)
filesystem10
javascript10
file-operations10
fileio10
multiplatform9
electron9
nodejs9
cross-platform9
build-automation8
css7
html7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
davidferguson/pibakery
Jul 2016 - Aug 2018
The blocks based, easy to use setup tool for Raspberry Pi
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:17 releases, 71 commits, 28 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the front-end and build processes of the Raspberry Pi setup tool. They implemented drag-and-drop file importing for XML and block folders, which improved the user experience. Key contributions include optimizing block copying and updating the build process to support new operating systems. They also fixed bugs related to the import and update processes of the blocks.
raspberry-pi
mathshistory/mathshistory-site
Sep 2019 - Oct 2021
The lektor project for the Maths History site, excluding the content files.
Contributions:564 commits, 217 PRs, 141 pushes in 2 years 1 month
lektor
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