Andrew Hayward
Technical Product Owner - Elm at EDINA
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndrew Hayward is a goal-oriented, data-driven Product Owner with 14 years of experience delivering web and cloud products across accessibility, IoT, and generative AI domains. Based in Edinburgh, he blends hands-on engineering chops—contributing to notable Mozilla projects like Bedrock, Open Badges Backpack and the Nunjucks templating engine—with strategic product leadership, coaching teams and defining roadmaps. He has led accessibility programs that embedded WCAG into development practices, scaled cloud/IoT platforms for intelligent vertical farming, and now directs a generative AI platform for the University of Edinburgh. Known for turning analytics into prioritized roadmaps and for pragmatic full-stack involvement, he pairs technical fluency with stakeholder-facing communication, having worked directly with high-profile clients and university departments.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Psychology and Biology, Bachelor of Science, Psychology and Biology at University of VictoriaCELTA, Certificate of English Language Teaching to Adults, CELTA, Certificate of English Language Teaching to Adults at University of CambridgeCertificate, Programming and Analysis, Certificate, Programming and Analysis at Humber College
French, Japanese
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Github Skills (22)
javascript10
html-escape10
css10
html-template10
python-templates10
code-templates10
apptemplates10
front-end-development10
nunjucks10
html10
web-development10
cpp-templates10
templating-engine10
testing9
site-design9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla/openbadges-backpack
Feb 2013 - Nov 2013
Mozilla Open Badges Backpack
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:28 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Andrew implemented several features related to user settings within the Mozilla Open Badges Backpack. They worked on both front-end and back-end components, developing the settings page UI using HTML, CSS, and potentially JavaScript, while also stubbing out the controller logic for saving user settings. Additionally, the user integrated routes for these new settings pages into the application, indicating a full-stack approach to the feature implementation. They also addressed various UI-related issues.
open-badgesmozilla-openmozillabadgesbackpack
mozilla/bedrock
May 2012 - May 2012
Making mozilla.org awesome, one pebble at a time
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on developing and updating the front-end components of the Mozilla Webmaker project. They made significant changes to the `webmaker/index.html` and `webmaker/_sidebar.html` templates, including modifying content, adding images, and updating URLs. The user also introduced a base template and CSS updates. Additionally, the user addressed the visual presentation and layout of the web pages.
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