Developer with over a decade of building web applications from the ground up.

Andrew Walker

Developer with over a decade of building web applications from the ground up.

Available to hire

Developer with over a decade of building web applications from the ground up.

Experience Level

Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert
Intermediate

Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

Full Stack Developer at AXW.dev (Freelance)
May 1, 2022 - Present
Freelance full stack development building websites and applications from the ground up, solo or as part of a team. Key contributions include dramatically improving the front-end developer experience for a data analytics platform; maintaining and updating product websites; migrating high-traffic sites to modern stacks; implementing A/B testing systems with no degradation in performance; designing and building a marketing site for a coin auction company.
Full Stack Developer at Canva / Flourish
December 1, 2021 - May 31, 2022
Contributed to Canva/Flourish projects; improved CI and testing for visualization templates; maintained interactive visualization templates and a visualization management platform; built templates using JavaScript/React/Vue with CI tooling including CircleCI.
Software Engineer at Impact Box
January 1, 2020 - December 31, 2021
Built a SaaS platform enabling charities to create online communities for volunteers and partners; set up infra as code, continuous integration, automated deployments, comprehensive testing, and a component design system; developed a Vue/Nuxt frontend backed by Contentful; created a marketing/content strategy for non-technical teams.
Full Stack Developer at Piclo
August 1, 2017 - July 31, 2020
Led frontend architecture for the energy flexibility marketplace using Nuxt and a design system based on Storybook; established unit, end-to-end, and visual regression testing suites; implemented CI; built tooling to enable creation of new backend microservices.
Software Developer at Lumen Research
October 1, 2014 - July 31, 2017
Sole developer of a desk-top application to visualize eye-tracking data on screen-based print media; led development of a platform for recording and analyzing eye-tracking data on websites; introduced TDD, BDD, agile development and CI/CD; mentored other developers and interns; co-inventor on UK and US patents for eye-tracking methods.

Education

MSc Computer Science at University of Birmingham
January 1, 2013 - January 1, 2014
BSc Mathematics at King's College London
January 1, 2007 - January 1, 2010

Qualifications

UK Patent (EP 3861424) for method of collecting points of interest on web-pages by eye-tracking
January 11, 2030 - January 9, 2026
US Patent (US-12353616-B2) for method of collecting points of interest on web-pages by eye-tracking
January 11, 2030 - January 9, 2026

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Media & Entertainment, Professional Services