Andrew Maskiell

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Full-stack web developer and software engineer possessing a background in music with a passion for composing code. My ability to work in a fast-paced environment, detail-oriented nature, and honed communication skills make me valuable in providing quality work. Besides that, I'm always good for a laugh.

Technical Skills

Languages

JavaScript (ES5 and ES6), TypeScript, Node.js, Python, RegEx, HTML, CSS, SASS, SQL, Java, Ruby, PHP

Libraries/Frameworks

React, Express, NestJS, Jest, Webpack, Vite, Vitest, d3.js, Gatsby.js, Redux, SQLAlchemy, FastAPI, Pydantic, pytest, Ruby on Rails, Twig, CraftCMS, Wordpress

Tools

Command Line, Git, Docker, Kafka, PostgreSQL, NewRelic, Grafana, LaunchDarkly, Snowflake, AWS, MongoDB, Confluence, Jira

Employment History

Pluralsight

Boston, MA

Software Engineer III :: June 2022 - June 2025Tech Lead :: October 2023 - October 2024

Spearheaded effort to retrofit legacy frontends into platform rewrite using Module Federation
Mentored and guided growth of junior engineers and interns
Architected, built, and developed UI for Practice Exams using React, Storybook, and Jest
Worked on the Skill IQ assessments product
As tech lead, managed and contributed to development of both the My Skills tab and refactor of Skill IQ's graph components using d3.js
Collaborated on feature development and maintenance of Python backend, utilizing packages such as FastAPI, Uvicorn, Pydantic, SQLAlchemy, Boto3
Actively wrote and improved backend tests using pytest and frontend tests using Jest and Testing Library
Helped maintain native Kafka producers and consumers using Confluent's Kafka Python Client
Led migration and refactoring of legacy frontend code for Skill IQ experience
Drove early adoption of Pando design system library
Created cron jobs to trigger alerts for issues in data integrity between PostgreSQL database tables and reflected tables in Snowflake

Salesforce

Cambridge, MA

MTS Software Engineer :: November 2021 - June 2022AMTS Software Engineer :: March 2020 - October 2021

Took ownership of the creation and documentation of the Flicker Defender gear
Built several global templates for the new Campaign and Template system
Contributed to Interaction Studio's Web SDK, including tests in Jest
Implemented the redesign of UI screens using Angular 1.5 and KendoUI as part of the release for a major feature
Deploy, review, and contribute code for Interaction Studio's Developer Documentation built with Gatsby.js
Led weekly office hours to facilitate quickly training support agents

Evergage

Somerville, MA

Support Engineer :: April 2019 - February 2020

Assist in supporting customer web and email integrations for an enterprise, real-time personalization platform
Devise and create solutions for various types of web campaigns using ES5 JS to deliver personalized content to end-users
Write and fix sitemaps using ES5 JS which are integral to customer implementations

Upstatement

Boston, MA

Engineering Apprentice :: August 2018 - April 2019

Contributed to Center for Public Integrity, Boston Society for Architecture, upstatement.com, and other internal projects
Configured complex web scraping robots to migrate thousands of articles and metadata during a content migration
Extensive use of Regular Expressions to address a variety of issues in migration process
Provided informed information architecture recommendations

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Boston, MA

Stage Assistant (Symphony Hall and Tanglewood Music Center) :: June 2014 - July 2018Assistant Stage Manager (Seiji Ozawa Hall, Tanglewood Music Center) :: June 2017 - September 2017Personnel Manager (Tanglewood Music Center) :: June 2016 - August 2016