Andrew Smith

About Andrew Smith

I’m a Staff Engineer-level software craftsman with 17 years of experience creating…

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer

   Microsoft

   Dec 2020 — Present

   Influential technical leader, mentor, overseeing delivery of high profile projects, with a focus on React, C#, GraphQL and microservices; advocating quality, performance, and enjoyable customer experiences. Achieved 90% reduction in key user-facing performance metrics through design and execution of CQRS and federated GraphQL; leadership to plan and deliver across 3 teams Scale technical leadership to 3 teams and mentor 5 engineers; including concrete applications of SOLID, React ecosystem, C#, federated GraphQL, and microservice architecture Increase test coverage from 0% to 52% through institution of unit and component testing via Jest and Cypress; advocate practitioner for pragmatic TDD Reduce time creating and communicating project timelines to leadership by ~80% by engineering forecasting tool, leveraging AI and historical data without requiring estimates Reduce CI times by 83% via improving reliability with Yarn PnP, reducing complexity with Nx, and breaking monolithic apps into small packages

Skills

• N-Tier
• Node.js
• Soa
• Jquery
• C#
• Asp.net
• Iis
• React.js
• Software Development
• Web Development
• Resharper
• Nhibernate
• Redux
• Scrum
• Agile
• Java
• .net
• Build Automation
• Powershell
• Xml
• Sql Server 2000-2008
• .net Framework
• Agile Methodologies
• Sql
• Advanced Css
• Ajax
• T-Sql
• User Interface
• Html 5
• Web Applications
• Tdd
• Visual Studio
• Atlassian Jira
• Javascript
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Test Automation
• Html5
• Rake
• Web Services Api
• Bdd