Andrew Mcolash
Senior Software Engineer II at Grow Therapy
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Mcolash is a Senior Software Engineer II based in Seattle with 11 years of experience building infrastructure, tooling, and reusable components that improve both user and engineer experiences. He has driven front-end and back-end work at companies like Tableau and Grow Therapy, shipping reusable React modules, design tokens, and cross-platform icon packages adopted across dozens of features. His open-source contributions span projects from a popular static gallery generator (thumbsup) where he preserved Exif metadata and improved thumbnail handling to UI-focused enhancements for the MagicMirror smart-mirror platform. Comfortable mentoring and leading technical initiatives, he pairs pragmatic engineering with an eye for developer ergonomics and testable tooling. Andrew’s background in games and data portals gives him a knack for performant render pipelines and data-driven UI, and he’s equally at home refactoring embedding logic as designing UX-focused components.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-MadisonHigh School Degree, High School Degree at Wauwatosa West High School
English
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Github Skills (22)
image-gallery10
javascript10
picture-gallery10
static-site-generator10
domo10
css10
domoticz10
photo-gallery10
google-oauth10
magicmirror10
html10
mirror10
photography9
handlebars8
image6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
MagicMirrorOrg/MagicMirror
Aug 2016 - Jan 2019
MagicMirror² is an open source modular smart mirror platform. With a growing list of installable modules, the MagicMirror² allows you to convert your hallway or bathroom mirror into your personal assistant.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 8 PRs, 39 comments in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the front-end development of the MagicMirror² project. They added features to the `currentweather` module, including the display of humidity and an icon, and also added functionality for single-line news display. They also made UI/UX enhancements to the calendar module with the ability to wrap and truncate event titles. Overall, the user has focused on enhancing the display and functionality of several existing modules within the smart mirror platform.
raspberry-piassistantjavascriptsmart-mirrordomotics
thumbsup/thumbsup
Oct 2018 - Apr 2019
Generate static HTML photo / video galleries
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 5 PRs, 35 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the thumbsup project, a static HTML photo/video gallery generator. Their work involved adding features such as preserving Exif metadata, allowing for rectangular thumbnails, and correctly handling relative paths. They also refactored code to optimize the embedding of Exif data, improving the user's control over image metadata.
static-htmlstatic-site-generatorgalleryphotographyphotos
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