Andrew Westling
Software engineer with a decade of experience in web development and a formal background in architecture. Specialty in building resilient interfaces, design systems, and platform-level tooling that multiplies the output of large engineering organizations. Skilled with TypeScript, React, Next.js, Tailwind, agentic AI tooling, and more.
👔 Experience
Design engineering at an identity and fraud prevention platform for financial institutions. Solving problems where design and engineering overlap.
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
Filter interfaces: built new filter interfaces for Alloy's risk management platform, improving analyst workflow for complex, multi-dimensional data
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
Design system mentorship: serve as the design system education resource for Alloy's product engineers, bridging design intent and implementation across teams
Scratching itches and building toys. My family software factory and holding company.
Front-end development at a regulatory compliance platform for global 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
First engineering hire at a music education startup; built the application from scratch and set the technical and cultural foundation for a growing team.
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 at a practice management platform for architecture firms.
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: 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.
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 development at an architecture products marketplace.
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 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