Andrew Van Slaars
Software Architect
Michigan, United States
Summary
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RockstarAndrew Van Slaars is a Software Architect with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and shipping web applications, UI systems, and developer-facing documentation. Based in Michigan, he blends front-end JavaScript enthusiasm with full-stack and DevOps responsibilities, evidenced by contributions to the high-profile Cypress documentation—adding embedded video support and improving cloud deployment scripts. An autodidact, instructor at egghead.io, and npx-savvy maintainer, he focuses on practical, user-centric UI architecture while ensuring reliable deployment and testing infrastructure. He balances technical leadership with day-to-day coding, able to move from component design to CI/CD changes without losing sight of developer experience. Outside work he prioritizes family life as a husband and father, which informs his collaborative and mentor-first approach to building teams and tools.
11 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
cypress10
cicd10
devops10
documentation9
html8
css8
testing8
nodejs7
yaml7
yui6
swig6
design-patterns6
asp-net6
yahoo6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cypress-io/cypress-documentation
Oct 2017 - Dec 2017
Cypress Documentation for the Cypress App, API, Cypress Cloud, UI Coverage and Cypress Accessibility.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer & DevOps Engineer
Full-stack Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:51 commits, 23 PRs, 36 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Andrew contributed to both the front-end and back-end aspects of the documentation project. They implemented video embedding functionality by adding new tags and styling. The user also worked on infrastructure, specifically by modifying and updating the deployment scripts to handle Cypress documentation deployment to cloud environments (S3). Furthermore, they made multiple changes to testing infrastructure files and navigation to integrate changes to documentation.
apiplugins-apicypresspluginsaccessibility
avanslaars/vnslrsio
May 2017 - Oct 2019
vnslrs.io - short links for my stuff
Contributions:7 PRs, 7 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 5 months
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