Andy Thompson
Designer In Residence at Sutter Hill Ventures
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndy Thompson is a multidisciplinary product and motion designer-turned-developer with a decade of experience building immersive VR/AR products, production-ready web apps, and polished user interfaces from concept to code. Based in San Francisco and currently Designer in Residence at Sutter Hill Ventures, he blends 3D tooling (Unity, Cinema4D, Maya, Substance) with front-end and full-stack skills (MEAN stack, React learning, HTML/CSS/JS) to prototype and ship interactive experiences. He led product design at Woebot and Samsung Research, taught intensive UX/UI bootcamps at UC Berkeley Extension, and freelanced projects that earned a spot in YC Startup School from 15K+ applicants. An active open-source contributor to btcpayserver and Lightning tooling, he focuses on improving UX and server settings, showing an unusual mix of crypto payments work and creative design. Known for crossing disciplines—motion, product, teaching, and backend—he excels at turning visual concepts into maintainable interfaces and developer-ready implementations.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Digital Arts, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Digital Arts at Louisiana State University
Spanish
Github Skills (14)
css10
uid10
user-interface10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
interface-design10
javascript9
html9
dotnet8
net8
asp-net8
dotnet-core8
csharp8
payment-gateway7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
btcpayserver/btcpayserver
Jun 2021 - Dec 2022
Accept Bitcoin payments. Free, open-source & self-hosted, Bitcoin payment processor.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:542 reviews, 81 commits, 67 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Andy primarily contributed to the user interface and server settings, including creating and modifying views for services, user management, files, maintenance, and notification settings. They also worked on the structure and formatting of the views and added custom CSS changes to enhance the user experience. These changes include reordering form elements, adding section headers, and updating display names, indicating a focus on improving the UI.
bitcoinbitcoin-payment-gatewaylightning-networkpayment-gatewaybitcoin-payment-processor
Bitcoiners-Best/bitcoinersbest
Oct 2019 - Feb 2020
The best bitcoin content curated by bitcoiners.
Contributions:185 commits, 17 PRs, 67 pushes in 4 months
bitcoin
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