Andrew Webster 🚀

Senior Front-End Developer

September 2024 - Present

Mentoring less experienced developers to promote simple and clean software design with React and TypeScript
Re-architecting the application to align with product trajectory, reducing maintenance overhead and accelerating feature delivery
Clearly communicating with customers, stakeholders, team members, and cross-functional collaborators in product and design
Implementing practices and tooling so that continuous delivery using trunk-based development becomes seamless and the norm
Organizing customer ride-alongs to learn how real customers use our software, turning findings into planned work
Reworking network call orchestration, application state, and data structures to reduce bugs and simplify working with data
Leveraging AI to accomplish structured coding tasks, assist in complex debugging, and quickly gain insight into code changes
Modernizing tooling to improve local development, static code analysis, feature flagging, and builds
Coaching the team on work breakdown, cross-functional collaboration, technical documentation, and measuring productivity

March 2020 - September 2023

Partnering with Product and Design to shape product opportunities through technical feasibility and architecture constraints
Ensuring production reliability so that hundreds of thousands of daily users' high expectations for quality and trust are met
Driving conversational code review practices to improve product quality and raise the technical bar across the team
Improving developer productivity and delivery reliability via modern tooling, trunk-based development, and observability
Crafting detailed solution design documents used to facilitate team alignment, feedback, and collaboration
Breaking down work to ensure requirements are clear, context is provided, and expected results are defined and testable
Mentoring less experienced team members in software development, communication, and cross-functional software delivery
Establishing and conducting an extensive hiring process to interview and evaluate front-end developers

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