Andrew Hsieh
Software Engineering Manager at Wealthsimple
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolAndrew Hsieh is a software engineering manager with 11 years of experience who blends a background in biology and economics with hands-on web development and prior marketing/sales experience. Currently leading engineering at Wealthsimple, he has progressed from full-stack developer to manager while contributing to both front-end and back-end work in notable open-source projects like Backstage and Augury. He brings practical expertise modernizing APIs, improving Angular tooling and builds, and enabling isomorphic type sharing across services. Andrew mentors new developers (former Lighthouse Labs instructor) and favors pragmatic, testable solutions that bridge product and developer experience. Based in Old Toronto, he’s actively seeking full-stack opportunities to expand his technical breadth and leadership impact.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Biology/Biological Sciences and Economics, Bachelor of Arts - BA Biology/Biological Sciences and Economics at Northwestern UniversityLighthouse Labs Toronto
Github Skills (19)
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apidoc10
typescript10
webpack10
api10
front-end-development10
webpacker10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
angular10
data-structure9
develop9
developer-tools9
data-structures9
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
rangle/augury
Mar 2018 - May 2019
Angular Debugging and Visualization Tools
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 31 commits, 25 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Andrew contributed primarily to the Angular-based front-end of the Augury debugging and visualization tools. Their work included updating the application to support Firefox and upgrading to Webpack 4. They also focused on adding support for Angular AOT compilation, including fixing related build and test issues. Furthermore, the user implemented component and routing improvements and added Angular detection features.
debuggingangular2angulardevtoolsaugury
backstage/backstage
Jul 2020 - Nov 2022
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:378 reviews, 135 commits, 93 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on refactoring cost-insights API types into an isomorphic package, allowing for shared use between the backend and other modules. Their contributions involved defining and exporting various types related to cost analysis, including `ChangeStatistic`, `Currency`, `Duration`, and `Entity`, along with other data structures. These changes included updating existing types, adding documentation, and moving frontend types to the correct directory. The user also updated API reports and adjusted existing type definitions.
portalsinfrastructureopen-platformdxbackstage
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