Andrew Shell
Senior Software Engineer at PetPlace
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Shell is a senior full-stack web engineer with over 14 years of hands-on experience and two decades of industry involvement, blending entrepreneurial instincts from co-founding SaaS startups with deep technical execution. He specializes in JavaScript-driven web platforms, building resilient Node.js/TypeScript backends, scalable APIs, and responsive frontends while leading and mentoring small engineering teams. As a former CTO he launched products quickly (proof of concept to field testing in six weeks), secured seed financing, and established testing and deployment pipelines that reduced risk for integrations with third-party partners. Based in Madison, Wisconsin, he pairs strong communication and documentation practices with pragmatic architecture—often creating automated mocks and Docker-based test infrastructure to enable safe refactors. Notably, he has a track record of improving performance and reliability across both startup and enterprise contexts, from kiosk React apps to complex partner API ecosystems.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS Technology Management, BS Technology Management at Herzing College
English
Stackoverflow
900reputation
267kreached
11answers
5questions
Github Skills (131)
di-container10
recurring10
gulp9
dependency-injection9
queue9
frequency9
ioc-container9
guice9
runner9
injection9
cron9
php9
psr-119
test-project9
angular8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
andrewshell/baseurltest
May 2013 - Jan 2016
Contributions:12 commits, 1 push, 1 comment in 2 years 8 months
rsscloud/rsscloud-server
Mar 2015 - Aug 2021
rssCloud Server implementation in Node.js
Contributions:8 releases, 71 commits, 7 PRs in 6 years 6 months
node-jsnodejsrsscloud-server
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