Andy Sacher
Ingeniero De Software at Reddit, Inc.
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarAndy Sacher is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience based in San Francisco, currently building software at Reddit. He focuses on front-end engineering, having contributed to historical reddit.com code by improving UX features like expando, enhancing the share widget with private-message sharing and recipient focus, and implementing link-tracking and analytics fixes. Comfortable working on large, public-facing codebases, he blends practical UI improvements with attention to analytics and usability. His playful GitHub bio ("hoopla!") hints at a curious, hands-on approach to solving front-end challenges in high-traffic environments.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (7)
javascript10
reddit10
ui-design10
html9
css9
backbonejs7
backbone7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
reddit-archive/reddit
Jun 2015 - Jan 2017
historical code from reddit.com
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Andy primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the Reddit codebase. Their work involved enhancing the user interface, focusing on the `expando` feature, which is crucial for displaying content. They also added functionality to the share widget, incorporating a "share via reddit private message" option and subsequently improved usability by implementing a focus on the recipients input field. Furthermore, the user modified link behaviors to enable tracking and implemented a fix for analytics to correctly set visited states.
pythonprawjavascripthistoricalarchiver
jewel-andraia/basicbeach
May 2020 - May 2023
Designing earrings using procedural generation and 3-D modeling tools such as Tracery and OpenSCAD
Contributions:2 PRs, 107 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years
tracerymodeling-toolsgenerationproceduralgarden
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