Andrew Dai is a software engineer with 14 years of experience based in San Francisco, currently focused on platform engineering at Heap and formerly building infrastructure and product features at Meter. He spans full-stack development—contributing front-end UX improvements and robust back-end API error handling in open-source projects like alf.io—and brings a practical eye for tooling and developer experience. His background includes internships and engineering roles at Square and several research and startup environments, reflecting comfort with both production systems and experimental work. Notably, he has hands-on experience adding polished admin tooling and resilient commonmark rendering to a widely used conference ticketing system, showing attention to edge cases that improve real-world reliability.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Bachelor of Science (B.S.) at Georgia Institute of Technology
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Acton Boxborough Regional High School
alf.io - The open source ticket reservation system for conferences, trade shows, workshops, meetups
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:12 commits, 4 PRs, 17 comments in 13 days
Contributions summary:Andrew contributed to both the front-end and back-end of the `alf.io` project. They added features to the admin interface including commonmark preview functionality with error handling. Additionally, they modified the backend API to include default values and error handling related to commonmark rendering and incorporated UI updates for improved tooling, indicating a focus on enhancing user experience and overall functionality.
Contributions:27 commits, 1 PR, 21 pushes in 3 months
pythonworkshopflaskpython-flaskhackgt
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.