Andrew Webster 🚀

Front-End & Leadership

March 2020 - September 2023

Senior Front-End Developer

Developing, evolving, and scaling front-end applications that are used by hundreds of thousands of users daily
Working closely with Product and Design to inform technicalities throughout the product development cycle
Conducting conversational code reviews aimed improving product quality and technical improvement of the team
Hosting knowledge sharing session to introduce new technical patterns or technical aspects of newly developed features
Championing the improvement of observability both front-end and back-end as a key part of quality product development
Documenting detailed solution design documents for initiatives, used to facilitate team alignment, feedback, and collaboration
Breaking down projects into stories and tasks, ensuring to provide the context and requirements to enable delivery by all team members
Establishing and conducting program for hiring front-end developers

Software Development Management:

Managing a team of 5-7 software developers working towards product outcomes
Creating the path for individual growth for every direct report through opportunistic work, coaching, and development plans
Managing delivery of multiple projects at a time, maintaining ongoing communication with stakeholders, collaborators, and dependencies
Ensuring teams planned objectives align with high level company level objectives, strategy, and vision
Training the team on agile software delivery, customer value creation, discovery based product development, and continuous improvement
Coaching through feedback from observed actions of direct reports, Weekly 1:1s, relationship building, personal development

June 2020 - July 2021

Product Development

Entrepreneurship Achievements:

150% month over month growth in users, check-ins, and revenue
In one year; 3K daily active locations, over 100,000 check-ins daily
July 2021 - AllChecked.In was acquired by Ritual.co https://betakit.com/ritual-acquires-contract-tracing-platform-allchecked-in/

July 2018 - February 2020

Enterprise Web Application Development:

Design System Development:

Development of design system parts for multiple delivery teams
Automating with CI tools to deliver tested components, publish npm packages, and deploy documentation
Documentation of design system for developers and designers

Training and Mentoring:

Developing and conducting a five week training program for developers to learn how to deliver and scale Angular applications
Ongoing daily 1:1 mentorship sessions to provide tailored support directed by individual repository observation

September 2016 - June 2018

February 2015 - July 2016

July 2012 - August 2014