Lyndon Purcell
Senior Software Engineer · Developer Tooling & DX
I'm based in Melbourne and mostly build developer tooling: static analysers, language servers and formatters.
Stack
Go · Python · TypeScript.
Taste
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Most bad developer experience, bugs included, comes from bad abstraction: too much indirection, or the wrong concepts.
Example: React.
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The best fix removes the whole class of problems.
Example: A static analyser beats a hundred review comments.
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If the simple version works, the clever version is a liability.
Example: This site is plain HTML on a CDN. It used to be a Go server, and that was the wrong call.
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Small, sharp tools you control.
Example: Neovim and the terminal.
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Keep a deterministic layer you control under anything non-deterministic.
Example: AI-written code goes through the same analysers as mine.
Work
Senior Software Engineer · Integrations · Remote
Built and own the developer tooling for Pathify's in-house config language, which had none before: Preheat (a static analyser), Splash (a language server), and Stir (a formatter). Adopted across the whole engineering team; teammates called it "a game changer."
Also led user provisioning, Pathify's most complex integration, and maintain the team's CI/CD pipelines and deployments.
Software Engineer · Melbourne, Australia
Shipped backend and frontend across more than a dozen SaaS products: APIs, AWS infrastructure, and async task processing.
Operations Analyst · Geelong, Australia
Data analysis, database maintenance, and automation scripting.
Project
Sole developer · In beta testing
A multi-tenant Go API with Stripe Connect payments, a SvelteKit web app for coaches, and Flutter mobile apps.