Andrew Huth
Senior Software Engineer at k-ID
Narragansett, Rhode Island, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Huth is a senior frontend engineer with 12 years of experience building accessible, high-performance web applications and developer tooling. He has led frontend infrastructure and design system efforts at organizations like the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and Mavenlink, guiding frameworks, testing, performance, and accessibility practices across teams. An active open-source contributor, Andrew has improved axe-core accessibility handling for tricky Unicode ranges and contributed TypeScript definitions to DefinitelyTyped, showing attention to edge cases and cross-environment compatibility. He pairs deep React and TypeScript expertise with practical leadership—managing teams, shipping features, and improving developer experience—and brings a discipline shaped by prior roles from manufacturing supervision to military service. Based in Narragansett, RI, he’s as likely to optimize a UI for screen readers as he is to make a notably good cup of coffee.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Finance General, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Finance General at University of DaytonTechnical Certificate Emergency Medical Technology/Technician (EMT Paramedic), Technical Certificate Emergency Medical Technology/Technician (EMT Paramedic) at Sinclair Community College
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Github Skills (28)
accessibility10
javascript10
flow-control10
electron10
work-flow10
typescript10
typescript-definitions10
github-desktop10
ui-design10
type-definition10
regular-expression10
uid10
axe10
front-end-development10
ax10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
firefox-devtools/debugger
Oct 2017 - Aug 2018
The faster and smarter Debugger for Firefox DevTools 🔥🦊🛠
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 13 PRs, 54 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Firefox debugger. Their work involved addressing prop-type warnings by integrating a separate `prop-types` dependency. They made improvements related to code structure by alphabetizing dependencies and removing duplicates. The user also removed usages of `createFactory` and upgraded the Flow types to improve the code quality. The user also added accessibility features, like the `A11yIntention` component.
firefoxsmarterfasterdeveloper-toolsdebugging
dequelabs/axe-core
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
Accessibility engine for automated Web UI testing
Role in this project:Accessibility Specialist
Accessibility SpecialistContributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 18 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Andrew made significant contributions to improving the accessibility of the axe-core library. They focused on enhancing the handling of unicode characters, particularly those in the Supplementary Private Use Area-A. Their work involved modifying regular expressions to accurately detect and handle these characters, including updates to test cases. They also refactored and clarified the code to improve compatibility with older environments like IE11, ensuring wider accessibility support.
web-uitestingopenui5a11ycdp
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