Andy Smith
VP, Technology at Fanalysis
Reigate and Banstead, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndy Smith is a seasoned technology executive with 14 years of experience building and scaling product and engineering organisations across startups and agencies. Currently VP, Technology, he has a track record of architecting cloud-native, AI-enabled platforms—most recently leading Bloom’s AWS microservices and Bedrock-powered coaching product from prototype to 24/7 B2B service. At LifeWorks he led a major re-architecture from a monolith to event-driven microservices, growing engineering from 40 to 110 and supporting 200k+ users globally. He combines hands-on full-stack skills (notably contributions to tools like grunt-responsive-images) with strategic responsibilities in hiring, security, GDPR/SOC2 compliance, and vendor/financial management. Comfortable operating across C-level stakeholders and delivery teams, he’s known for shipping resilient systems with high uptime and pragmatic AI adoption. Based in the UK, Andy blends agency-honed product craft with startup grit to deliver measurable business outcomes.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science (Software Engineering), BSc Computer Science (Software Engineering) at University of EssexReigate College
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Github Skills (10)
g10
javascript10
imagemagick10
graphicsmagick10
image-processing10
gruntjs10
css7
html7
babeljs6
ecmascript6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
andismith/grunt-responsive-images
Jul 2013 - Nov 2018
Produce images at different sizes for responsive websites.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 106 commits, 18 PRs in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Andy primarily contributed to the development of the `grunt-responsive-images` Grunt plugin. Their work focused on resolving merge conflicts, adding features such as percentage-based image resizing and custom units, and implementing new functionality like the 'sample' option and control over animated GIFs. They also updated the demo site, demonstrating a front-end focus as well. This user was responsible for enhancing the core image resizing functionality.
responsivesizesgruntgraphicsmagickresponsive-images
andismith/graaff
Jan 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:39 commits, 20 pushes, 5 branches in 1 month
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