Andrew Kingston
UX Prototyping Lead at Cloudsmith
Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Kingston is a UX-focused engineering leader with 10 years' experience building front-end and full-stack products, currently heading UX prototyping at Cloudsmith after leading engineering at Budibase. He combines a product-minded design sensibility with deep JavaScript expertise, shipping maintainable, high-performance UX and form tooling—evidenced by his contributions to Budibase around relationship pickers, safe form IDs and validation. A DevOps, cybersecurity and Linux enthusiast who runs a homelab, he brings practical operational awareness to developer workflows and platform reliability. Andrew has a track record of moving ideas from prototype to production across startups and scaleups, mentoring teams while keeping a hands-on coding role. Trained with a First-Class BE in Computer Science from Queen’s University Belfast, he blends academic rigour with pragmatic engineering. He’s equally comfortable optimizing user journeys as he is tuning CI/CD and infra, making him a bridge between design, code and operations.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, First-Class Honours, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, First-Class Honours at Queen's University Belfast
Github Skills (9)
javascript10
backend9
front-end-development9
back-end-development9
svelte9
form-validation8
css7
html7
json7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Budibase/budibase
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
Create business apps and automate workflows in minutes. Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, MSSQL, MongoDB, Rest API, Docker, K8s, and more 🚀 No code / Low code platform..
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1309 reviews, 6207 commits, 1036 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Andrew implemented new features related to the relationship field, including adding a common picker component for deduplicating options. They worked on improvements to form field ID generation to ensure safety, and added custom component actions. The commits also show work on form validation, including adding a validation action and addressing an array value validation issue. Additionally, the user modified existing features to ensure data source results returned are always arrays.
no-codesap-hanalow-code-frameworklow-code-platforminternal-tools
aptkingston/mtimecheck
Jun 2018 - Mar 2022
Contributions:2 pushes in 3 years 9 months
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