I love turning ideas into realities on the internet. I’ve spent years diving deep into the world of full-stack development, but my heart truly lies in polishing the fine details of UIs and making experiences so smooth that they make people smile (even on a bad day). I love the challenge of turning complex ideas into simple, intuitive experiences.

Work Relationship Status: Currently Looking

I love building things and working with others to bring ideas to life. I'm looking for a role in a startup or small company where I can work closely with smart, driven people, excite users by going hard to implement features on the roadmap and, of course, help drive business growth through impactful implementations.

• Hackers, The Unofficial Movie API
  An API based on the 1995 movie "Hackers". I built this to get a more intimate feel for building a RESTful API (which I absolutely love doing now) and learn a bit about how to containerize an app (which I'm admittedly still a bit fuzzy on). Get information on characters, organizations, hacks, quotes, and more. Inspired by the continued maintenance of Cyberdelia NYC and Hackers Curator by fellow fans. Hack the planet!

• NYC Crash Radar
  After getting frustrated with learning some back end development and having a tough time getting pumped to code, I built this for fun to remind myself that it's all good. Woosah. This little project leverages New York City's Motor Vehicle Collisions - Crashes API to see the latest crash data from around New York City.

• Gather Social
  Inspired by a wedding (I tried to build this for the wedding a few days before the wedding [yikes!]), Gather Social allows users to create Instagram-style social feeds for their private events. When the event is over, admins can one-click download all photos submitted for in the event. I realized a fundamental flaw in how I conceptualized this product after fully building it and will be building out a v2 to see if it takes off.

• My Portfolio
  Ah. My little internet baby. I built this with my favorite framework for contentful sites, Astro. It's light, it's fast, it sends as little js to the browser as possible, and I even converted to a markdown-based blog (which from a DX standpoint is INCREDIBLE in comparison to dealing with a CMS).

I try to share knowledge or perspective after some ordeals. Here's where you can see some of my latest pieces:

• Building and Testing an OTP UI Component with React and TypeScript
• Building Flexible React Components with TypeScript: Conditional Props in Action
• Detecting Outside Click Events with JavaScript
• Supabase Password-less Authentication with the Next.js Pages Router

You can email me at andrew(at)internetdrew(dot)com, find me on Twitter, or connect with me on LinkedIn.