Summary
Andrew Huffman is a Lead Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building performant, resilient UI platforms and developer tools, currently driving Core UI & Customization work on Salesforce's Lightning Platform. He blends deep front-end expertise (LWC, TypeScript, Angular, SPA architectures) with systems and DevOps experience—designing Babel-based static analysis and prefetching tools that improve mobile offline behavior and page load performance. Andrew has led cross-team product efforts, instrumented large-scale services with Splunk and Heron, and historically shipped everything from memory-dump fixes to containerization strategies and microservice CI/CD. A lifelong self-learner who started by scripting IRC bots, he enjoys teaching and evangelizing APIs (notably Lightning Navigation) and translating complex requirements into practical developer-facing solutions. Colleagues know him for avoiding single-role pigeonholes: he pairs UX sensibility and platform thinking with hands-on implementation across the full stack.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Computer Science, M.S., Computer Science at Appalachian State University