Andrew Westling
Seasoned web engineer, with a background in design and architecture. Specialty in crafting resilient web applications, with a particular emphasis on design systems and both front-end and full-stack features. Skilled with TypeScript, React, Next.js, Tailwind, and more. Dedicated to optimizing processes for scalability and fostering effective teamwork and communication.
👔 Experience
Solving problems that arise where design and engineering overlap. Alloy is an end-to-end identity risk management platform for companies that offer financial products.
Front-end application development. Droit builds tools for decision-making and global regulatory compliance for financial institutions.
Applications: productionized and delivered the first version of a new application to help analysts validate transaction reports before they are sent to regulators
Design systems: improved build performance and developer experience of Droit's component library
Feature development. Setting up tools and culture. First engineering hire. Forte is a purpose-built music education platform for teachers and students.
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
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.
UX/Product Architecture: informed the UX, product flow, and overall architecture of a multi-role marketplace application
Design system and feature development for Monograph's applications. Monograph makes tools to help architecture firms manage their projects, budgets, and tasks.
Design systems: built components for Monograph's component library; wrote documentation and set up workflows between Figma and the codebase
Features: built customer-facing features: Team Directory; filter functionality for Monograph Resource; Settings UI; "Consultants" feature; etc.
"Glue" work; a lot of hard-to-quantify things like process documentation, choosing tools, configuration, code reviews, data migration scripts, customer support collaboration, bug triaging, etc.
Design system and feature development for Better's loan origination platform. Better.com is a mortgage lender.
Design systems: established Better's Design Systems team; built libraries to empower engineering teams to build consistent and clean UIs
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.
Integrations: extended integrations with sales and marketing tools (call scheduling, A/B testing, etc.)
Full-stack and front-end feature development and infrastructure maintenance. Architizer is a platform to help architects find products for buildings.
Component libraries: established and maintained a UI component system to speed up feature development, and improve collaboration with designers
Features: built internal- and external-facing features: a private messaging interface; directory interfaces to Solr search indexes; etc.
Integrations: extended integrations with external tools for analytics, error logging, marketing, and customer support
Internship-to-hire. Consultancy/agency setting. Built marketing pages and full-stack features for web applications and client projects.
Technical phone support and customer service for macOS products while completing degree.
🔧 Tools
🎓 Education
B.Arch, Architecture