About

Andrew Blowe is a Senior Software Engineer at Gartner Digital Markets (Capterra) with over 11 years of relevant experience. He is a front-end focused full-stack engineer who enjoys building beautiful and useful web applications. Andrew is passionate about both engineering and design and loves learning how things work. Currently, he is working on https://www.capterra.com, a platform that helps businesses find the right software. Andrew has led a team of four developers to create the React component library for Capterra's new design system. The library is used across all high revenue pages on www.capterra.com. This effort required balancing priorities of page speed for SEO, user experience, developer experience, thorough API design, and project timeline planning. He has also introduced Design tokens and built a new system to convert design tokens into utility class CSS to improve page speed and enable themability. Andrew has transitioned the front-end of high revenue driving Rails application to React, on top of Serverless AWS Lambda architecture. He has improved testing practices using Cypress.js and Jest. In the past, Andrew has worked for Barquin International as a Full Stack Developer where he built dashboards to visualize Foreign Aid and Economic data from around the world. He used leading-edge Javascript libraries including ReactJS and D3.js for Frontend, Node build tools, Jest, and Cucumber for testing, and Ruby on Rails for the backend. Andrew has also worked as a Software Engineer at AAI Corporation where he built an asset tracking application using the Java web framework Vaadin and collaborated with lab engineers to gather requirements. He sharpened his skills using Linux, Bash scripting, Java OOP, Mercurial code management, and also helped fix PHP and IBM DXL scripts. Andrew holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Hood College. His tech stack includes Software Engineer, Frontend, Javascript, Ruby, AWS, test, Web, Backend, PHP, and ReactJS. Andrew is a detail-oriented engineer who is passionate about building innovative web applications that provide value to users.