Andrew Hynes
Senior Software Developer at CoLab Software
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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Top SchoolAndrew Hynes is a Senior Software Developer based in St. John's, Newfoundland with eight years of experience blending mechanical and computer engineering to build backend systems, automation frameworks, and machine learning and computer vision solutions. He holds a 4.0 Master’s in Computer Engineering and a high-achieving Mechanical Engineering bachelor’s, bringing strong academic rigour to production engineering and testing roles at IBM and CoLab Software. Andrew has progressed from backend developer to senior developer at CoLab, shipping reliable services and improving developer workflows. An active open-source contributor, he has improved git UX and robustness in the popular lazygit project by implementing stash features, UI updates, and tests. Comfortable moving between research, data analysis, and production code, he pairs a systems-level engineering mindset with practical, test-driven development.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Gonzaga High SchoolMaster’s Degree, Computer Engineering, 4.0 / 4.0, Master’s Degree, Computer Engineering, 4.0 / 4.0 at Memorial University of Newfoundland
English, French
Github Skills (5)
git10
terminal-ui10
go10
cli9
testing9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jesseduffield/lazygit
Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
simple terminal UI for git commands
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 23 commits, 1 PR in 5 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to adding and refactoring features related to the git stash functionality within the `lazygit` terminal UI. Their work involved adding an option to include untracked files when stashing, refactoring code to improve clarity and efficiency, and implementing tests for the newly introduced stash functionality. They made changes to the codebase, including modifying the user interface, and command execution logic.
ratatuirustterminal-uisimple-terminalgit-commands
ajhynes7/advent-of-code-2022
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:34 commits, 25 pushes, 3 branches in 17 days
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