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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Paysafe Group - Tech Lead (Front-End)
September 2016 - June 2018
Habanero Consulting Group - Front-End Development
February 2015 - July 2016
Freelance - Web Development
July 2012 - August 2014