Andrew Smith
Developer at Makerspace48.no
Arendal, Agder, Norway
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolAndrew Smith is a multidisciplinary developer and creative director with 12 years of experience blending software engineering, design, and the arts to build immersive digital experiences. Based in Arendal, Norway, he pairs back-end development chops—illustrated by meaningful contributions to the widely used WooCommerce project—with a studio practice in music and visual art, enabling solutions that are both technically sound and aesthetically considered. At Frameworks AS he focuses on practical engineering, while running Makerspace48.no and No Future In... demonstrates his commitment to community-driven making and creative leadership. His background in graphic arts and illustration informs a user-centered approach to product design and code readability, evident in his attention to refactoring and coding standards on open-source projects. Known for a hands-on, maker mindset (and a self-described blunt GitHub bio), he reliably bridges prototype to production. Colleagues value him for turning creative concepts into maintainable systems that respect both form and function.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts, Graphic Arts and Design, Bachelor of Arts, Graphic Arts and Design at Leeds Metropolitan UniversityFoundation Diploma, Illustration, Foundation Diploma, Illustration at West Nottinghamshire Collage
Norwegian, English
Github Skills (8)
woocommerce10
filterlist10
php10
filtering10
filter10
ecommerce10
back-end-development9
wordpress9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
woocommerce/woocommerce
Nov 2017 - Aug 2019
A customizable, open-source ecommerce platform built on WordPress. Build any commerce solution you can imagine.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 9 PRs, 50 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on enhancing the WooCommerce core functionality by adding and modifying filters. Their commits involved refactoring code related to shipping costs and cart calculations, specifically modifying the handling of "Free!" shipping. They also introduced filters to customize the display of product titles and item names within the shopping cart. Furthermore, the user addressed code style issues to adhere to the project's standards.
ecommercecommercewordpressautomatticphp
drivdigital/driv-starter
Oct 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 58 commits, 6 PRs in 6 months
wordpresswordpress-themewoocommercewordpress-pluginstarter-theme
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