Andy Braren
Principal Interaction Designer at Thinkerbit, LLC
Greater Boston United States
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Top SchoolAndy Braren is a Principal Interaction Designer with 11 years of experience crafting enterprise-grade UIs that help teams collaborate and stay organized, currently shaping cross-portfolio experience vision at Red Hat. He blends human-factors expertise (MS from Tufts) with hands-on front-end development, contributing production-ready HTML/CSS and accessibility improvements to PatternFly and the OpenShift Console. Known for taking projects from kickoff to preview—like the OpenShift Assisted Installer and dashboard work—he coordinates designers, engineers, and stakeholders to turn research-backed ideas into shipped features. Andy also runs a long-standing web consultancy serving sites with millions of annual views, showing product-minded pragmatism beyond large-enterprise design work. An understated strength is his ability to spot cross-product alignment opportunities and form working groups that scale design thinking across complex distributed teams.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Human Factors, Master of Science - MS Human Factors at Tufts University
Github Skills (19)
accessibility10
javascript10
handlebars10
ui-components10
css10
typescript10
ui-design10
uid10
openshift10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
html10
typescripts10
react10
kubernetes-pods8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/console
Jul 2019 - Mar 2020
OpenShift Cluster Console UI
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:24 reviews, 8 commits, 17 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Andy primarily contributed to the OpenShift console UI, with a focus on improving the user experience and component functionality. Their work included refactoring the subsystem health flow, adjusting spacing, and capitalizing UI elements. They replaced documentation links and addressed unit label consistency, particularly regarding byte representation. Additionally, they made minor fixes to spelling and URL capitalization within the frontend code.
openshiftopenshift-origin
patternfly/patternfly
Aug 2018 - Jan 2019
This repo contains core (HTML/CSS) implementation for PatternFly. Issues related to CSS/HTML and layout should be filed here.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 17 PRs, 133 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Andy primarily contributed to the PatternFly front-end library by modifying existing components and introducing new ones. Their work involved updating the accessibility of UI elements, such as modifying `aria-label` attributes and addressing color contrast issues. They implemented new components like the Tabs and Alert Group, and also integrated form elements within a login demo, showcasing expertise in HTML, CSS, and Handlebars.
csspatternfly
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