Andrew Powell
Backend Engineer at Charlie Labs
Tampa, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Powell is a seasoned software engineer and technical leader with 17 years of experience designing and shipping backend and middle-tier systems, and broad full-stack fluency with a Node.js focus. Based in Tampa, he excels in remote and distributed team environments as an architect, mentor, and hands-on developer. An active open-source maintainer and core contributor—most notably leading plugins for Rollup and contributing substantial fixes and features to webpack, webpack-dev-server, and jquery-ui—he routinely improves build tooling and developer workflows. He combines pragmatic engineering (SSL support, HMR fixes, manifest generation) with performance-minded work such as a refactor of a high-performance streaming CSV parser. Comfortable operating across CI, tests, and release hygiene, he brings both deep implementation skill and a knack for shipping robust developer-facing tooling.
17 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science, Computer Science, Computer Science at Central Michigan University
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Github Skills (41)
javascript10
middleware10
csv-parse10
jquery10
testing10
plugin-development10
hot-module-replacement10
typescript10
ui-design10
cicd10
webpack10
uid10
front-end-development10
webpacker10
typescript-types10
Programming languages (30)
Github contributions (5)
rollup/plugins
Aug 2019 - Nov 2022
🍣 The one-stop shop for official Rollup plugins
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:280 reviews, 367 commits, 576 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Andrew contributed to the development and maintenance of Rollup plugins, focusing on adding new plugins and improving existing ones. They added a "beep" plugin with basic functionality and tests, and also refactored and migrated existing plugins like "replace", "alias", "strip", "wasm", "json", "auto-install", "yaml", "image", "virtual", and "multi-entry". The user also updated dependencies and corrected various linting errors throughout the plugin suite.
rolluprollup-pluginsbundlerstopshop
webpack-contrib/webpack-serve
Dec 2017 - Jul 2018
Repository has moved:
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 127 commits, 78 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Andrew contributed to the `webpack-serve` repository by refining features, adding core functionality, and creating addon examples. Their work included implementing features such as HTTPS support, and providing a way to copy the server URI to the clipboard. The user also added improvements to the command-line interface and helped improve the test suite.
webpack-pluginwebpack3html-webpack-pluginwebpack2browserify
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