Andy Heathershaw
Principal Engineer at Waggybytes Technology
Stafford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolAndy Heathershaw is a Principal Engineer with over a decade of experience building and modernising Microsoft .NET and open-source PHP and Go applications, currently driving engineering at Journey following Premier Software's acquisition. He blends deep .NET expertise (C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, WinForms, MVC, .NET 5+) with hands-on frontend skills (HTML/CSS/JS, jQuery, Vue) and a passion for Linux-hosted PHP/Laravel and Go projects. As a former CTO and product manager, he has led development teams, overhauled product UIs and shipped mission-critical systems—most notably a travel platform that replaced a third-party solution and saved £100k+ in licensing and support. He is an active open-source contributor (Bolt CMS core) and the creator of developer tools and a free email/SMS reminder service, demonstrating a habit of turning practical tooling needs into public projects. Equally comfortable in Azure, AWS and DevOps operations, he combines product-minded leadership with hands-on delivery across Windows and Linux stacks.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Cannock Chase High School
Github Skills (13)
doctrine10
php10
bolt10
twig10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
cms9
database-administration8
databases8
database8
admin8
mysql7
api7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
bolt/core
Oct 2020 - Apr 2022
🧿 Bolt 5 core
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 8 PRs, 45 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Andy primarily focused on enhancing the Bolt CMS core. Their contributions include improving the taxonomy system by integrating taxonomy type definitions, and correcting logic within the taxonomy fill listener, and ensuring proper link generation within the twig templates. They addressed deprecation warnings by updating database platform calls. They also made some improvements to improve the quality and stability of the existing code, and to integrate updated features.
cmsapiapi-platformbolttwig
andysh-uk/blue-twilight
Sep 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:23 releases, 92 pushes, 16 branches in 10 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.