Andrew Wang-Hoyer

Senior Software Engineer | New York

Experiments and Digital Art

10 years of experience creating interactive experiments and other digital art.

  • Designed and implemented 20+ browser experiments, with 7 being recognized by Google’s Chrome Experiments Showcase.
  • Designed and implemented a Sudoku App for iOS (Swipe Sudoku) with native performance using React-Web.
  • Commissioned to create a physics based experiment (Emergent Motion) for the Museum of Digital Art in Zurich, Switzerland.

Work

  1. Senior Software Engineer

    2010 - 2017

    Inkling, San Francisco, CA/New York, NY

    7+ years leading development on large scale front-end applications.

    • Designed and led implementation of a notification administrator interface using React/Redux, and Firebase’s Realtime Database.
    • Maintained and improved UI/UX on a large-scale Backbone.js WYSIWYG editor, while maintaining strict unit and integration testing practices.
    • Lead engineer of an analytics dashboard built using React/Redux and Express. Responsible for planning full stack implementation, and aided in implementing the front-end.
    • Lead engineer for the front-end growth team, creating an internal analytics library and 20+ UI/UX experiments resulting in a 100% sign up conversion increase.
    • Lead engineer responsible for building a cross browser web reader using Backbone.js.
    • Coordinated cross team meetings about the web technology stack to help the team stay up to date on the latest web platform developments.
    • Cultivated strong development practices using Airbnb’s JavaScript/React style guide and BEM for company wide stylesheets.
    • Mentored and on-boarded junior engineers and interns.

    A detailed outline of my time at Inkling can be found at:

    http://andrew.wang-hoyer.com/inkling.

  2. Undergraduate Research Assistant

    2009 - 2010

    University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

    Designed, developed, and deployed a web interface (Enviro-Net) for the collection, management, and analysis of environmental sensor network data.

  3. NSERC Undergraduate Research Assistant

    2008

    University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

    Designed and developed a prototype web interface (EcoNET) for displaying environmental sensor network data.

Education

University of Alberta, B.S. in Computer Science, 2010. Dean’s Honor Roll.

Stanford University Coursera Certification in Machine Learning, 2017.

CalArts Coursera Certifications in Graphic Design, Image Making, Typography, and The History of Graphic Design, 2017.

Skills

JavaScript: ES6/Next, React, React-Native, Redux, Sagas, Backbone.js, Express, Mocha/Chai, Jasmine, modern browser and node APIs

CSS: Expert with CSS3+, PostCSS, SASS/Compass

Python: Django, Flask, Pytest

Design: Sketch, Adobe Photoshop, OpenSCAD, SketchUp

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