Andrew Prifer
Founder at Stealth AI Startup
Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Prifer is a founder and product-focused front-end engineer with 11 years of experience building UI, UX and 3D graphics for web applications. He has led frontend teams at Luma AI and helped launch Theatre.js as a founding engineer, contributing UI components, React bindings and motion-design tooling used by web creators. His open-source work includes migrating styling and improving interactive controls for pmndrs/leva and adding color pickers, camera helpers and build fixes to Theatre.js Studio, signaling deep practical expertise in React, r3f and CSS-in-JS. Based in Australia, he pairs creative interface design with hands-on engineering, often tackling tricky build and styling consistency problems others avoid. Now founding a stealth AI startup, he blends product instinct with front-end craftsmanship to prototype expressive, interactive tools. A lifelong tinkerer, he’s as interested in the aesthetics of interaction as in the technical plumbing that makes it reliable.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Groningen
Hungarian, Dutch, German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
uid10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
windows-gui10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
typescript-types10
ui-components10
animation9
html6
nlp6
character-encoding6
machine-learning6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
theatre-js/theatre
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Motion design editor for the web
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:59 reviews, 213 commits, 121 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Andrew contributed to the React bindings for the `dataverse` library, providing initial documentation for its API. They implemented a new color property with an associated color picker UI component. They also integrated a grid helper and a custom camera to the r3f components. Furthermore, they fixed multiple issues with the build system and performed various UI improvements to the Theatre.js Studio.
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pmndrs/leva
Jan 2021 - Feb 2021
🌋 React-first components GUI
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 6 days
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on migrating the project's styling to Stitches, a CSS-in-JS library, as evidenced by numerous commits modifying styling files. They implemented and refined various UI components, including color pickers, input fields, select elements, and boolean toggles. Their work included updating the default theme and addressing styling issues for a consistent user interface within the React-based GUI.
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