Andrew Westling
Design engineer with a formal background in architecture and a decade of experience in web development. Specialty in the intersection of design and engineering: building design systems, crafting resilient interfaces, and thinking holistically about how products are structured and scaled. Skilled with TypeScript, React, Next.js, Tailwind, agentic AI tooling, and more. Experienced doing platform-level work that multiplies the output of large engineering organizations.
👔 Experience
Design engineering at an identity and fraud prevention platform for financial institutions. Solving problems where design and engineering overlap.
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Platform migration: partnering with a small frontend platform team to lead an architectural migration of Alloy's frontend application, with rollout planned across ~50 product engineers
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Filter interfaces: built new filter interfaces for Alloy's risk management platform, improving analyst workflow for complex, multi-dimensional data
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Design system tooling: built an internal component usage reporting tool to analyze React component adoption across the codebase, enabling data-driven decisions about design system evolution
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Design system mentorship: serve as the design system education resource for Alloy's product engineers, bridging design intent and implementation across teams
Front-end development at a regulatory compliance platform for global financial institutions.
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Applications: productionized and delivered the first version of a new application to help analysts validate transaction reports before they are sent to regulators
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Design systems: improved build performance and developer experience of Droit's component library
First engineering hire at a music education startup; built the application from scratch and set the technical and cultural foundation for a growing team.
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From scratch: set up Forte's Next.js application from the ground up; chose tools and workflows to enable quick iteration; established a component library for consistent user experience
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Built features: built the first iteration of various customer-facing features for Forte's marketplace: Teacher Profiles; Certified Institutions; Invitations and Sign Up; Teacher Ratings and Reviews; "Switch Role" functionality; etc.
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UX/Product Architecture: informed the UX, product flow, and overall architecture of a multi-role marketplace application
Design system and feature development at a practice management platform for architecture firms.
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Design systems: built components for Monograph's component library; wrote documentation and set up workflows between Figma and the codebase
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Features: built customer-facing features: Team Directory; filter functionality for Monograph Resource; Settings UI; "Consultants" feature; etc.
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Glue work: process documentation, tool selection, configuration, code reviews, data migration scripts, customer support collaboration, bug triaging; coordination that kept the team moving
Design system and feature development on Better's loan origination platform.
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Design systems: established Better's Design Systems team; built libraries to empower engineering teams to build consistent and clean UIs
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Features: built assorted borrower-facing features: Redisclosure Service; "Required Assets and Buffer" logic; Authentication/Session Expiration; UX for uploading a competitor's Loan Estimate; Loan Overview page; etc.
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Integrations: extended integrations with sales and marketing tools (call scheduling, A/B testing, etc.)
Full-stack and front-end development at an architecture products marketplace.
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Component libraries: established and maintained a UI component system to speed up feature development, and improve collaboration with designers
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Features: built internal- and external-facing features: a private messaging interface; directory interfaces to Solr search indexes; etc.
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Integrations: extended integrations with external tools for analytics, error logging, marketing, and customer support
Internship-to-hire at a product consultancy; built full-stack features and marketing pages across client projects.
Technical support for macOS products while completing degree.
🔧 Tools
🎓 Education
B.Arch, Architecture