Andy Yaco-mink
Staff Engineer at Datadog
Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolAndy Yaco-mink is a staff engineer with 14 years of experience building high-scale web applications and leading large cross-functional teams. He has driven multimillion-dollar growth and experimentation programs at Etsy, rebuilt critical platform components like messaging and purchase tracking, and scaled analytics and CMS systems at BuzzFeed to serve billions of monthly events. Earlier in his career he was the sole technical founder for HuffingtonPost.com's launch, demonstrating strong end-to-end product and ops instincts. Now based in Worcester, MA and currently at Datadog, he blends front-end and back-end expertise—JavaScript/TypeScript, React, GraphQL, PHP, and Python—with a knack for turning measurement innovations into repeatable growth levers. Notably, he pairs hands-on coding with mentoring and cross-team program-building, helping senior engineers step into technical leadership.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Github Skills (39)
contenteditable10
javascript10
parser10
rich-text10
html-editor10
gif10
wysiwyg10
api10
medium10
player10
medium-editor10
text-editing10
rich-text-editor10
editor9
beautifier9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
yacomink/inyourface
Apr 2017 - Jul 2020
A handful of low-rent animations layered atop all the faces in your image.
Contributions:95 commits, 11 PRs, 74 pushes in 3 years 3 months
computer-visionrentatopfacesanimations
buzzfeed/libgif-js
Aug 2012 - Mar 2016
JavaScript GIF parser and player
Contributions:25 commits, 13 PRs, 12 pushes in 3 years 7 months
playerjavascriptgifparser
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