My name is Andrew Smith. I’ve been working in full-stack development professionally since 2016, my main tools being Ruby on Rails and the ecosystem of skills and technologies that surround that. I lean more towards the backend in my experience, but have done front end and full-stack projects using React, vanilla JavaScript, and the old workhouse that was jQuery. Similarly, I’m competent in several forms of CSS, including libraries such as Bootstrap and Tailwind.

My developer career began with an internship at a travel startup, where I primarily did front end work, but was also exposed to some Python and Django. Following that, I had two back-end focused contract positions using Ruby and Rails, working on a real estate application and a stock exchange app respectively. My first permanent developer position was within a small division of a private mid-sized recruitment firm, where I worked with the lead developer and eventually wore many hats, eventually assuming primary responsibility for this firm’s small and medium business self-serve recruitment software. After two and a half years there, I moved on with a desire to assume more responsibility and learn newer technologies, working in more senior full-stack positions on an email and LinkedIn sales campaign application, and most recently on software for brokers working in commercial real estate transactions.

I’ve worked in both feature creation and maintenance, and have seen setups ranging from the newest and hottest to 10+ year old beasts running dead libraries and frameworks, such as “Hobo”. I’m a generalist who favours making code as consistent and comprehensible as possible.