a little about me

Andrew Kodkod

Andrew Kodkod

Engineering Manager / Tech Lead

I build apps and lead development teams.

I’ve worked on web, mobile and desktop apps, including multi-million dollar projects. Having run a business myself, I understand the decisions and trade-offs behind the work.

[ in numbers ]
  • 15+

    years of experience

  • 50+

    projects built

  • 10

    team members

    maximum team size

[ current status ]

Not available for hire. Always happy to exchange ideas.

Selected work

web + mobile

A few of the products I’ve helped build over the years.

  1. 811spotter

    Automated 811 ticket management for contractors

    Staff Software Engineer 4 years

    [ read ]
  2. Dinghy

    Web and mobile insurance platform connecting insurers in the UK and USA

    Tech Lead 5 years

    [ read ]
  3. SchoolCNXT

    A school social network for parents, teachers and students in the USA

    Lead Ruby Developer 1 year

    [ read ]

Tools & experience

a working reference
[ Soft Skills ]
Leadership
8 years
Agile (Scrum/Kanban)
8 years
Mentoring
5 years
Interviewing
8 years
Performance Reviews
8 years
[ Frontend ]
JavaScript
15 years
TypeScript
4 years
React
7 years
Next.js
2 years
Vue
2 years
Tailwind
3 years
Astro
1 year
[ Backend ]
Ruby/Rails
11 years
Node.js
5 years
PHP
5 years
SQL
16 years
NoSQL
5 years
C++
2 years
Python
1 year
AI/ML
1 year
[ Mobile ]
ReactNative
3 years
Electron
3 years
Capacitor
3 years
Flutter
1 year
Swift
1 year
[ DevOps ]
Docker
8 years
AWS
5 years
GCP
1 year
CI/CD
8 years
Heroku
10 years
Vercel
2 years
[ Hobbies ]
Game Dev
2 years
UI/UX Design
5 years
Photography
2 years
Love for Cats
Whole life
[ Languages ]
English
Fluent
Ukrainian
Native
Russian
Native

Kind words

people I’ve worked with

Andrew is a cheat code. He is the cheat code to a modern, scalable, totally kicks-ass web architecture. When you ask ChatGPT a tricky coding question, it goes to him for the answer. While other developers are debugging their code, Andrew just stares at the screen until the bugs apologize and fix themselves. His keyboard doesn't have a backspace key because he never makes a mistake.

Andrew is at the top of my list for developers I've led, worked for, or worked with. What really makes him unique, aside from his love of the color yellow, is the breadth of his knowledge, his willingness to help push design in a better direction, and his ability to quickly produce very high-quality solutions. I feel sorry for the alternate timeline where our startup did not find Andrew.

Go ahead… it's ok to cheat!

Jeff HarrisonCo-Founder at 811spotter

If you want to guarantee that development of your project will be successful - then hire Andrew. Andrew has been pinnacle to us right from our first line of code - all the way through to what is now a highly successful online insurance business in the UK, which has received continued industry praise for the technology we've built. He's been a key architect in what has become a highly sophisticated online insurance platform that competitors are struggling to replicate.

Edward WoodcockCTO at Dinghy

He's highly proactive, and takes pride and ownership in his role. He regularly contributed great ideas, or more often, pragmatically went ahead and implemented what he knew would be good for the company. I don't think we would have achieved half as much as we did without Andrew, and we have much to thank him for making our jobs as company leaders so much easier.

Rob HartleyCEO of Dinghy

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