Andrea Start
Senior Consultant at Slalom
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAndrea Start is a Senior Consultant and Salesforce specialist with 11 years of hands-on experience across administration, business analysis, development, and solution architecture, now based in Seattle. She has led cross-functional teams at organizations like Slalom, Symetra, and Nextep to design scalable Salesforce solutions and mentor developers in best practices. Beginning as an end user in 2008, she brings a user-centric perspective to complex technical designs, emphasizing great user experiences alongside robust integrations. Andrea is also an active front-end open-source contributor—her work on PIXI.js and particle-emitter improved interaction handling and performance in a widely used WebGL 2D renderer. Her background spans cloud systems administration, marketing-driven product improvements, and founding a small IT services company, giving her a rare blend of technical depth and customer-facing savvy. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic problem solver who turns stakeholder needs into well-documented, maintainable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Science and Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Science and Technology at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Github Skills (14)
javascript10
pixijs10
webapi10
event-handling10
front-end-development10
particle10
graphic9
rendering9
render9
2d9
performance-optimization9
graphics2d9
webgl8
canvas8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
pixijs-userland/particle-emitter
May 2016 - Dec 2022
A particle system for PixiJS
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:46 releases, 2 reviews, 209 commits in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Andrea primarily focused on modifying and improving the particle system for PixiJS. Their work included documenting and improving the functionality of the configuration, adding new features like "noRotation" and maximum speed, and fixing cleanup issues and empty texture handling. The user also made performance improvements to the particle system by optimizing the use of ParticleContainers. Additionally, the user addressed several bugs, including one in the ring spawner.
javascript-libraryparticleparticlesparticle-systemjavascript
pixijs/pixijs
Jul 2016 - Nov 2021
The HTML5 Creation Engine: Create beautiful digital content with the fastest, most flexible 2D WebGL renderer.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:31 reviews, 32 commits, 32 PRs in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Andrea primarily contributed to the interactive aspects of the PIXI.js library, focusing on the `InteractionManager` component. Their work involved enhancing event handling for touch, mouse, and pointer events, including adding support for cursors. The user also addressed bugs related to event propagation and data cleanup. Furthermore, the user added tests to improve event handling and cursor functionality.
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