Andrew Valish
Senior Frontend Engineer at Thermo Fisher Scientific
Kidder Township, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Valish is a Senior Frontend Engineer with 12 years of experience building product-first user interfaces at the intersection of design, engineering, and product. He has modernized mission-critical applications at Thermo Fisher Scientific, built interactive 3D instrument configurators and global PWA rollouts, and led UI design and engineering at comma.ai where his work helped ship consumer-rated driver-assistance products and contributed to the openpilot codebase. Comfortable across web, mobile, and embedded systems, he authored reusable design systems and component libraries that scaled across teams and devices. His contributions span frontend architecture, offline-first apps, and embedded telemetry—adding network and thermal monitoring features to a widely used open-source autonomous driving OS. Based in Pennsylvania, Andrew combines hands-on coding with product strategy and a knack for turning complex hardware-software problems into intuitive user experiences.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Web Design & Interactive Media, Web Design & Interactive Media at Lehigh Carbon College
Github Skills (14)
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embedded10
driver10
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drive10
python10
networking9
ui-design9
front-end-development9
robotics9
uid9
c-language8
cprogramming-language8
linux7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
commaai/openpilot
Feb 2020 - Mar 2020
openpilot is an operating system for robotics. Currently, it upgrades the driver assistance system on 300+ supported cars.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer
Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:9 commits, 16 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the system's thermal management and network monitoring capabilities. They added network type and strength logging to the thermal data, and refactored parts of the UI and sidebar to display this information. They also introduced a LaneChangeEnabled parameter and settings toggle, demonstrating contributions to system settings and control.
driveroperating-systemroboticsdriver-assistance-systemsadvanced-driver-assistance-systems
commaai/comma-x-native
Nov 2017 - Nov 2019
X UI Library for React Native
Contributions:41 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years
react-nativex-ui
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