Andrew Boyton
Principal Engineer at THE ICONIC
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Boyton is a Principal Engineer based in Sydney with nine years of professional experience and a PhD-level background in computer science. He blends deep technical hands-on work—especially in TypeScript, GraphQL, frontend architectures and automated testing—with strategic leadership, having set engineering standards and roadmaps at Freelancer.com and driven cross-platform product improvements at Foxtel. His work on video streaming resilience and A/B testing measurably cut buffering and churn while increasing viewership and revenue, showing a strong focus on translating engineering changes into business outcomes. Andrew has led large migrations from monoliths to progressive web architectures, created testing frameworks that treat apps like users, and introduced on-device TV automation to tame hard-to-reproduce bugs. He’s comfortable both mentoring organisations through cultural change and personally shipping critical components, often choosing pragmatic tooling and abstractions that make complex systems easier to maintain. A less obvious strength is his academic rigor from years at NICTA and UNSW, which informs a methodical approach to engineering problems and testability.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
UNSW Sydney
English
Github Skills (135)
tooling10
beautifier10
chat10
linter10
extensible10
linting10
jscodeshift10
tslint10
traffic10
collaboration10
jsx10
markdown10
javascript10
static-analysis10
reactive10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
aboyton/rxjs
Aug 2017 - Dec 2020
A reactive programming library for JavaScript
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
rxjsfunctional-programmingfunctional-reactive-programmingjavascriptreactive-programming
aboyton/typescript-json-schema
Nov 2017 - May 2019
Generate json-schema from your Typescript sources
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 year 5 months
generate-jsonjson-schematypescriptgeneratorjson
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