Andrew Sliwinski
Vice President, Head Of Product Experience at the LEGO Group
Vejle, Region of Southern Denmark, Denmark
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Andrew Sliwinski is a product and engineering leader who blends design, creativity, and technology to build playful learning experiences at scale as Vice President and Head of Product Experience at the LEGO Group. With 14+ years across startups, research, and nonprofits—including co-directing Scratch at MIT and co-founding DIY.org—he has shipped widely used education products and contributed to core open-source projects like Scratch’s GUI, VM, and mobile apps. He pairs hands-on technical chops (frontend, backend, mobile) with strategic product leadership, having led teams through product strategy, launches, and day-to-day portfolio management. A trustee of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, Andrew’s work sits at the intersection of creativity, child safety, and learning technology, and his creative technologist pieces have been shown at MoMA and Carnegie Hall—an unusual blend of museum-grade creativity and production engineering.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (43)
webgl10
code-optimization10
javascript10
middleware10
ios10
statsd10
mobile-development10
ui-components10
testing10
css10
gulp10
ui-design10
sentiment-analysis10
uid10
front-end-development10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
thisandagain/sentiment
Oct 2012 - Dec 2019
AFINN-based sentiment analysis for Node.js.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:162 commits, 132 PRs, 108 pushes in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the development and testing of the sentiment analysis functionality. They added the initial readme file, implemented features to inject custom word/value pairs into the AFINN word list and refactored the test suite. The user also resolved an edge case that could cause the sentiment analysis function to throw an error.
nlpnode-jsafinnmachine-learningsentiment
scratchfoundation/scratch-render
Aug 2016 - Nov 2018
WebGL-based rendering engine for Scratch 3.0
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:29 commits, 21 PRs, 16 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the front-end aspect of the rendering engine, specifically focusing on the `playground` demo. Their work involved modifying the HTML and JavaScript files to integrate with the rendering system and improve the user experience. Key changes include fixing issues related to undefined window objects and synchronizing the demo code with the master branch. They also worked on updating the worker to accommodate some of the feedback and adjust the UI parameters.
rendering-enginewebglthreejsrenderingscratch
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