Andy Baird
Founding Engineer at Humla Health
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolAndy Baird is a founding engineer and empathy-driven full stack developer with 14 years of experience building web products and leading engineering teams from startup to scale. Based in Saint Paul, he combines hands-on React and TypeScript frontends with Ruby on Rails backends, Postgres, and AWS infrastructure-as-code to deliver reliable, user-centered systems. He has led teams and shipped frequent releases as Director of Engineering at Threads Culture and acted as a scrum team lead at Groundfloor Finance before co-founding Humla Health. Andy contributes to open-source projects like twig.js, improving templating features and test coverage, reflecting a pragmatic attention to edge cases. Known for translating user needs into technical designs, he also has a background running production deployments and building CI/CD and monitoring workflows. That blend of product empathy, infrastructure experience, and steady delivery makes him a dependable technical leader for early-stage and growth-phase products.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
AAS, Computer Programming, AAS, Computer Programming at Hennepin Technical College
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Github Skills (15)
javascript10
twig10
templating10
php9
zend-framework9
html9
testing8
xml6
css6
twitter-oauth6
jquery6
apache6
electron6
mysql6
facebook6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
twigjs/twig.js
Apr 2012 - Sep 2012
JS implementation of the Twig Templating Language
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Andy primarily contributed to the Twig.js project by implementing and refining features related to the templating language's functionality. They introduced new filters, such as `escape` and `nl2br`, along with their corresponding alias and tests. Additionally, they enhanced the `dump` function, adding support for undefined and function types, and incorporated bug fixes to improve the overall stability and usability of the library.
template-enginetwigtemplatingphptemplating-language
ThreadsCulture/REST-API
Sep 2016 - Nov 2021
Threads Culture REST API Documentation
Contributions:2 PRs, 133 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 2 months
apiapi-documentationrest-api-documentationthreadsrest
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