Andy Merskin

Denver, CO

Hey! I'm Andy 👋

I'm a Principal Software Engineer (UI + UX, and budding Full Stack) leading engineering teams to success creating digital products, backed by thoughtful research, delightful user interactions, unified visual language, energizing motion, and well organized & optimized architecture.

Need a fresh frontend for your B2B SaaS product FAST?!🔥 Let's chat.

Happy teams lead to happy users!

Skills & Technologies

As an individual contributor, I specialize in expert-level front-end development, but I'd like to expand my skillset to explore full-stack and mobile development more. Here is my core skillset:

Leadership

Product Discovery

Project Management

Design

Design Consulting

Napkin Sketching

Rapid Prototyping

Visual Design

Engineering

Bun

Node.js

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

TypeScript

Frontend

E2E Testing

Integrating REST APIs

Mock Service Worker (MSW)

React

Tailwind CSS

Vue 3

Backend

Next.js APIs

RPC

Delivery

GitHub

GitHub Actions

Netlify

Vercel

Everything else I'm familiar with:

Design

  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Affinity Photo
  • Design Systems
  • Diagramming
  • Figma
  • PDF Creation
  • Sketch App

Engineering

  • AI / Agentic Code Reviews
  • AI / Agentic Development
  • DataDog
  • Docker
  • Feature Flags
  • Git
  • LaunchDarkly
  • Turborepo
  • Unit Testing
  • WordPress

Frontend

  • Angular 1.x
  • Auth0
  • AWS Cognito
  • Babel
  • CSS
  • Cypress
  • Docusaurus
  • Electron
  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • jQuery
  • TanStack Query
  • TanStack Start
  • Vite
  • Vue 2
  • Webpack

Backend

  • AWS (lightly)
  • Cloudflare Cap'n Proto
  • Cloudflare Workers
  • Convex
  • Netlify Functions
  • PHP (long ago)
  • PostgreSQL (lightly)

Recent work

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