Andrew Webster 🚀

Front-End & Leadership

KOHO Financial

March 2020 - September 2023
Front-End Development
  • 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 teams of 5 to 7 software developers working towards product outcomes
  • Ensuring the team's planned objectives align with high level company level objectives, strategy, and vision
  • Managing delivery of multiple projects at a time, maintaining ongoing communication with stakeholders, collaborators, and dependencies
  • Creating the path for individual growth for every direct report through opportunistic work, coaching, and development plans
  • 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 using situation behavior impact model for clear messaging

Co-Founder / CTO

AllChecked.in

June 2020 - July 2021
Technological Stewardship
  • Rapidly prototyping, advising technicalities, and developing features
  • Ensuring safety of customer's shared personal information
Entrepreneurship Achievements
  • 150% Month over Month growth in users, check-ins and recurring 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
  • Continuous agile delivery of features and reduction of technical debt for large enterprise web applications
  • Providing support to teammates, advising technical feasibility, and planning technical solutions for flexibility plus long term viability
Design System Development
  • Delivery of design system to be used across multiple enterprise applications and delivery teams
  • Automating with CI tools to deliver tested components, publish npm packages, and deploy documentation
Training and Mentoring
  • Establishing a five week training program to enable trainees to be able to deliver and scale Angular applications
  • Ongoing daily 1:1 mentorship sessions to provide a safe conversational environment for learning

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February 2015 - July 2016

Freelance - Web Development

July 2012 - August 2014