Andrew Hedges
COO at Assistiv Labs
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Hedges is a seasoned engineering leader and operator with over two decades of hands-on web development experience and 11 years in senior roles, now serving as COO and co-founder of Assistiv Labs where he builds tools to make the web more accessible for assistive technology users. He combines deep front-end and mobile-web expertise—from shipping high-profile, traffic-driving marketing sites at Apple to leading design system and acquisition teams at Zapier—with a commitment to inclusive hiring and mentorship. As founder of The Collab Lab and a former instructor, he specializes in teaching collaboration practices that help early-career developers from underrepresented groups succeed on real software teams. Known for shipping high-visibility projects and improving engineering processes, he also runs a small press publishing his poet father’s work, revealing a creative side that complements his technical leadership.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
MEd College Student Personnel, MEd College Student Personnel at University of MarylandBA French Language, BA French Language at Washington State University
Stackoverflow
21,779reputation
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Github Skills (89)
python10
javascript10
jquery10
annotate10
dom10
chrome-extension10
caniuse10
cross-browser10
browser9
css-grid9
generated-code9
html9
jquery-plugin9
chrome9
ajax9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
the-collab-lab/smart-shopping-list-deprecated
Nov 2019 - Aug 2021
Smart Shopping List Template
Contributions:26 reviews, 49 commits, 17 PRs in 1 year 10 months
shopping-listtemplate-listtemplateshopping
the-collab-lab/.github
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:17 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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