Andrew Brouwers
Sr. Development Engineer at BISSELL Homecare, Inc.
Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Brouwers is a senior development engineer with 17 years of hands-on experience designing and bringing mechanical products from concept to production, currently leading upright vacuum development at BISSELL Homecare. He combines deep CAD and SolidWorks expertise with systems-level thinking—rapid prototyping, subsystem integration, testing, and design-for-manufacturing—gained across consumer appliances, powered applications, and gas springs/dampers. As a technical team lead on cross-functional projects, he balances creative problem solving with practical cost-reduction and manufacturing support to accelerate product launches. His background includes international experience at LOGICDATA in Austria and fluency in German from a college minor, which aids in cross-border collaboration and supplier engagements. Known for troubleshooting complex mechanical issues under production timelines, he brings a pragmatic engineering mindset rooted in a Mechanical Engineering degree from Michigan Technological University. Outside of product launches, he quietly excels at translating field failures into durable design improvements that reduce long-term warranty costs.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering at Michigan Technological University
English, German
Github Skills (31)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
JKtheSlacker/slamdbuilds
Oct 2008 - Mar 2009
Contributions:68 commits in 5 months
abrouwers/gnome-shell-impatience
Mar 2023 - Mar 2023
speed up gnome-shell animations
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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