Andrew Fong
President at Geshido
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolAndrew Fong is a versatile technology leader, attorney, and entrepreneur with 12 years of experience building frontend-first products and developer tooling from Menlo Park. As President of Geshido and former Senior Staff Engineer at Slack, he led major migrations and product integrations—driving Slack Canvas, Huddles, and Files while championing performance, accessibility, and code quality. He combines hands-on full‑stack engineering (React, SolidJS, Vite, TypeScript) with product instincts from founding startups like Materia Obscura and Kirkland North, and has shipped browser extensions, real‑time UIs, and analytics platforms. A practical open-source contributor, he refreshed the popular Hyde Jekyll theme and improved test coverage for the widely used tape test harness, showing attention to usability and reliability. Trained as a lawyer (UC Berkeley Law) and experienced in due diligence and complex transactions, he brings a rare mix of legal rigor and technical execution to product and organizational decisions. Outside work he’s also a webcomic artist—summed up, playfully, as a “rabbit on fire” on GitHub—hinting at a creative streak behind his engineering discipline.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
JD Law, JD Law at University of California, Berkeley - School of LawBA Government Computer Science, BA Government Computer Science at Harvard University
Chinese
Github Skills (11)
html10
assertion10
css10
liquid10
assert10
javascript10
nodejs10
jekyll10
testing10
github-pages9
ruby4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
fongandrew/hydeout
May 2017 - Feb 2021
A refreshed version of Hyde for Jekyll 3.x and 4.x
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:24 releases, 4 reviews, 141 commits in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the Jekyll theme, implementing features and addressing issues related to the theme's functionality and responsiveness. They fixed base URLs, developed a tag page, and refactored the theme to utilize SASS variables. The user also integrated features like Google Analytics and Disqus comments, and enhanced the theme's usability with features such as category links and search functionality. They made changes to HTML, liquid, and CSS files.
ruby-gemjekyll-themesjekylljekyll-themehyde
tape-testing/tape
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
tap-producing test harness for node and browsers
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 8 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on improving the test suite for the `tape` library, addressing stack trace and assertion output issues. They updated existing tests to correctly reference anonymous function names and corrected error messages. The contributions included fixing failures and ensuring the correct output of the test results.
test-harnessbrowserstestingjavascriptnodejs
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