Andres Escobar

Engineering Director - Amex Business Blueprint at American Express

Phoenix, Arizona, United States
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Andres Escobar is an Engineering Director at American Express with 11 years of experience building customer-facing products and internal engineering frameworks. He leads member experiences for Amex Business Blueprint—owning onboarding, profile management, Business Checking and the Kabbage integration and rebrand—while balancing hands-on coding with product strategy. Comfortable shipping large, complex launches and designing maintainable, testable systems, he also contributes to open-source testing tooling, notably enhancing visual regression capabilities in americanexpress/jest-image-snapshot. Trained in Management Information Systems at the University of Arizona, Andres blends product-minded engineering with a focus on developer ergonomics and long-term code health. Colleagues rely on him to translate ambiguous business needs into elegant, extensible solutions that are easy for teams to iterate on.
code11 years of coding experience
bookThe University of Arizona
languagesSpanish, English
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Github Skills (5)

javascript10
jestjs10
snapshots10
testing10
nodejs8

Programming languages (4)

TypeScriptJavaJavaScriptGo

Github contributions (5)

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✨ Jest matcher for image comparisons. Most commonly used for visual regression testing.
Role in this project:
userQA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:18 releases, 32 reviews, 86 commits in 3 years
Contributions summary:Andres primarily focused on developing and maintaining image comparison testing within the `jest-image-snapshot` repository. Their contributions included writing comprehensive test suites, implementing new testing features, and refactoring existing tests. They demonstrated expertise in utilizing testing frameworks and libraries, and ensuring accurate visual regression testing. The user also added features like side-by-side comparison view and cleanup of test results.
image-comparisonsmatcherimage-snapshotsjestregression-testing
anescobar1991/Musicale

Jul 2014 - Oct 2018

Contributions:124 commits, 42 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
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Andres Escobar - Engineering Director - Amex Business Blueprint at American Express