About

Andy Smith is a Senior Product Developer at AND Digital with over 9 years of relevant experience in backend, frontend, and DevOps technologies. He has worked with clients from various industries, including Hospitality, Justice, Aviation, E-commerce, and Open Banking. Andy has excellent team leading and delivery skills, and he strives to produce high-quality, maintainable code while keeping up with the latest technology and best practices. He is a self-motivated individual who functions well in a team and has experience working on multiple projects simultaneously. Andy's passion for coaching and mentoring is evident in his satisfaction from knowledge and experience sharing, blogging, and general knowledge sharing. He has a broad range of client-facing and technical skills, and he is driven by challenging situations. Andy has worked on multiple projects at once and is always eager to take on new challenges. Aside from his professional life, Andy is an outdoor enthusiast who loves skiing, camping, and climbing. He is also a musician who enjoys performing on a range of instruments. Andy previously worked as a Technical Team Lead and Senior Backend Engineer at Robert Walters, where he built scalable microservices in an event-driven architecture for a recruitment tool. He also worked as a Technical Team Lead and Senior Frontend Engineer at Whitbread, where he led the development of Premier Inn's Business Booker tool, which brings in hundreds of millions in revenue per year. He was a key team member in major releases of new client features and experiences and influenced the development and ways of working by demonstrating new tools and their capabilities. Andy holds a Bachelor of Computer Science (BSc) with Industrial Placement from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. His tech stack includes backend, frontend, software engineering, JavaScript, Docker, TypeScript, Kafka, microservices, DevOps, Java, Redux, AWS, test, and infra.