Andy Ford Senior Frontend Engineer

I collaborate directly with our UX Team to implement our design system in code as the core maintainer of our React UI component library built with TypeScript, React, (S)CSS modules, Storybook, and Rollup. I support colleagues with our UI library and other internal frontend libraries and provide general frontend consulting. I collaborate with our Frontend Architects to author, maintain and evangelize our internal frontend standards and guidelines; and I facilitate our monthly frontend guild meetings and moderate our guild Slack channel.

Designed and built web interfaces with Ruby on Rails and Angular 2 - with a focus on user experience and CSS architecture - in close collaboration with a cross-functional team.

I led an international team of front and back end web developers developing new features for the Westwing consumer shopping experience in 9 languages across 14 countries.

Wrote usability interview questions/flows analyzed and prepared data visualizations of our user research, usability tests and heuristic reviews. Clients included Fortune 100 companies. Full-stack development of REST, SPA and MVC web apps and web-based UX prototypes. Testing and research platforms include: live user interviews/tests, UserTesting, Usabilla, SurveyMonkey, Optimizely.

AdGlue was a startup ad platform and a 2012 SXSW Accelerator finalist. As the sole designer and frontend developer, I designed all UI and visual assets including the product styleguide, workflows and wireframes using pen/paper, whiteboards, Fireworks and Photoshop. Responsive frontend implementation in HTML5, CSS3 (Sass/Compass), JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, and Grails GSPs.

My responsibilities included defining user workflows, designing wireframes and mockups, and frontend development using JSPs, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, YUI, AJAX, Git. I designed and implemented a responsive retrofit of sacramentopress.com.

Frontend template production and integration into Mura CMS for projects ranging from small sites to large web apps for Fortune 100 companies.

Developed and designed file sharing webapp (PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JS). Designed screens for Loan Management System desktop software product.

CSS-Tricks article exploring the usage of inline CSS variables/custom properties along with the CSS calc() function to reduce overall amount of CSS.
https://css-tricks.com/efficient-infinite-utility-helpers-using-inline-css-custom-properties-and-calc/

The site is headless WordPress with an Eleventy frontend hosted on Netlify. Performance and accessibility were a top priority as a technical expression of inclusion.

(retired, but can be found on archive.org) A social photo sharing site for Lego artists built with AdonisJS, postgres, server-rendered HTML, minimal client-side JavaScript; and hosted on Heroku. Third party integrations include Cloudinary, Mailgun, and Mailchimp.