Andrew Bastin
Head Of Engineering at Vibrant Labs
Kochi, Kerala, India
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Bastin is a Head of Engineering with a decade of experience leading product-focused teams and shipping polished web applications from Kochi, India. As Co-founder and CTO of Hoppscotch for six years, he helped build a popular open-source API development ecosystem—contributing front-end improvements for GraphQL/REST workflows, UI/UX polish, and testing that materially improved developer experience. Now leading engineering at Vibrant Labs, he combines startup grit with hands-on frontend craft, particularly around making complex API interactions feel simple and reliable. Comfortable moving between strategy and code, he treats design details (auto-complete, line wrapping, response downloads) as levers for broader product quality. His GitHub tagline—"Making stuff go beep boop beep"—belies a pragmatic emphasis on usable tooling that scales for real developers.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors in Computer Science Computer Science, Bachelors in Computer Science Computer Science at Lakehead University
Github Skills (12)
graphql10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
vue10
wordpress-graphql10
wpgraphql10
vue-jsx10
typescript-types10
api-client10
ui-design9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
hoppscotch/hoppscotch
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
Open source API development ecosystem - https://hoppscotch.io (open-source alternative to Postman, Insomnia)
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:44 releases, 680 reviews, 794 commits in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Andrew made various front-end focused changes within the Hoppscotch project, concentrated on improving the user interface and functionality related to the application's API features. These changes included enhancing GraphQL and REST request features by focusing on the rendering, usability and download options of the application's response data. Further adjustments focused on the UI/UX by implementing a variety of features like auto-complete and line wrapping enhancements, all while adding testing capabilities. These changes included updates that improve the overall user experience and ensure a more robust API testing experience.
api-testingdeveloper-toolspwavuetesting-tools
AndrewBastin/justshare-client
Jun 2019 - Oct 2020
JustShare is a simple P2P file transfer app utitilizing WebRTC [WIP]
Contributions:97 commits, 1 PR, 27 pushes in 1 year 4 months
p2pwipfile-sharingwebrtcfile-transfer
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