Andrew Webster 🚀
Front-End & Leadership
KOHO Financial
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
- Collaborating with Backend Developers to build APIs, approaching API design by starting with the customer experience
- 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
- Writing Automated Unit Tests, visual tests, and conducting quality checks on my own code and others in code reviews
- 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
Co-Founder & CTO
AllChecked.in
June 2020 - July 2021
Product Development
- Rapidly prototyping technical solutions for feasibly and viability
- Tactically prioritizing initiatives for customer needs and pain points
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/
Solution Architect
Rangle.io
July 2018 - February 2020
Enterprise Web Application Development:
- Leading a team of developers with continuous agile delivery
- Reducing technical debt based on current goals and future plans
- Creating solutions for large projects with product and design
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
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Paysafe Group - Tech Lead (Front-End)
September 2016 - June 2018
Habanero Consulting Group - Front-End Development
February 2015 - July 2016
Freelance - Web Development & Search Engine Marketing
July 2012 - August 2014