Andy Brown
Software Developer at Mainmatter
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndy Brown is a software developer based in London with 12 years of experience building web applications, particularly in Ruby on Rails and Ember.js where he favors convention over configuration. Currently consulting at Mainmatter, he brings practical front-end expertise demonstrated by contributions to ember-simple-auth, refactoring authentication mixins and improving router service usage while keeping tests stable. His background spans startups and product roles—from e-commerce and React work at MOO to incubation leadership at Founders Factory—giving him a mix of hands-on engineering and product intuition. Trained as an aerospace engineer (MEng, University of Bath), he combines a disciplined, systems-oriented mindset with entrepreneurial instincts and a focus on pragmatic, maintainable code.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng), Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, 1st, Master of Engineering (MEng), Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, 1st at University of Bath
Github Skills (7)
emberjs10
authentication10
user-authentication10
javascript10
session-management10
testing9
git8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mainmatter/ember-simple-auth
Jul 2017 - Sep 2019
A library for implementing authentication/authorization in Ember.js applications.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 18 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Andy primarily contributed to the Ember.js application by refactoring and modifying mixins and routes related to authentication. They focused on moving functionalities into utilities and using router service instead of methods available on route. The user updated various mixins such as `unauthenticated-route-mixin` and `authenticated-route-mixin` to improve the authentication process within the application. Their work also included test updates to reflect the changes made to mixins, ensuring the application's functionality remained stable.
authorizationauthenticationemberjs-applicationssession-management
geekygrappler/ember-cli-todo-mvc
Dec 2014 - Dec 2016
Ember CLI tutorial making todo-mvc app
Contributions:25 commits, 3 PRs, 17 pushes in 2 years
ember-cliember-addontodoemberjsember
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