Andreas Elia
Software Engineer at Raycast
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAndreas Elia is a full stack software engineer with 11 years' experience, now at Raycast, who ships frontend, backend and mobile products across React, Next.js, Remix, Svelte, React Native, Flutter and Laravel. He combines hands-on implementation with product-minded engineering—having built greenfield apps, led a small dev team as CTO, and delivered microservices and CI/CD pipelines for production systems. Andreas is an active open-source contributor, notably improving Raycast extensions' UX and adding Liveblocks integrations, and has authored tooling such as a Laravel-to-Postman generator to ease API workflow. Based in Birmingham, he thrives on projects that stretch his curiosity and skillset, from A/B testing platforms to interactive feedback apps. Colleagues describe him as results-driven and adaptable, comfortable switching between rapid prototyping and robust backend architecture.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Wolverhampton
Github Skills (23)
javascript10
laravel-mix10
typescript10
generator10
ui-design10
laravel10
uid10
api10
routes10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
postman10
collections10
typescripts10
fastroute10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
andreaselia/laravel-api-to-postman
Dec 2020 - Sep 2022
Generate a Postman collection automatically from your Laravel API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 releases, 14 reviews, 121 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Andreas primarily contributed to the development of a Laravel-based API to Postman collection generator. Their work involved implementing the core logic for automatically generating Postman collections from Laravel API routes. They added features for structured organization within the generated Postman collections and included the ability to configure bearer token authentication. Furthermore, the user worked on setting up configuration options and enhancing the code style.
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raycast/extensions
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Everything you need to extend Raycast.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:19 reviews, 11 commits, 25 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Andreas primarily contributed to the Raycast extensions, focusing on building and enhancing UI components. Their work involved adding new features like "Copy Username" with a shortcut and implementing a new Liveblocks extension. They also updated existing extensions such as the Spotify player, adding functionality to open actions in the Spotify app, and made various UI and UX improvements across several extensions. This includes modifications to UI elements, addition of actions and features in the user interface, as well as fixing bugs and improving the overall functionality of existing components.
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