Andrew Calder
Software Engineer at Ferocia Pty Ltd
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Calder is a full-stack software engineer based in Melbourne with nine years of technical experience and a background in mechanical engineering. He specializes in Ruby on Rails and payments, and has transitioned from reliability and field engineering roles to building production web software. Andrew contributes to notable open-source projects like mapbox-gl-js, focusing on front-end UX polish and mapping features, reflecting an eye for detail and user-facing behavior. His mechanical engineering roots inform a pragmatic, reliability-first approach to system design and incident analysis. Currently at Ferocia after growing through hands-on roles at Disco Labs, he brings both hardware troubleshooting discipline and modern web development craft to complex product problems.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development Bootcamp, Web Development Bootcamp at Le WagonBachelor of Engineering (Honours), Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (Honours), Mechanical Engineering at The University of Queensland
Github Skills (12)
webgl10
uid10
maps10
typescript10
javascript10
maplibre-gl10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
typescript-types10
3d10
camera9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mapbox/mapbox-gl-js
Nov 2018 - Mar 2021
Interactive, thoroughly customizable maps in the browser, powered by vector tiles and WebGL
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 22 PRs, 34 comments in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the `mapbox-gl-js` repository. Their commits involved fixing documentation issues for camera methods and making updates to UI components. They addressed issues related to popup behavior and added functionality to retain bearing on geolocate features. Additionally, the user worked on implementing visual enhancements such as graying out zoom buttons at max/min zoom and fixing antialias doc typos.
vector-tileswebgl3djavascriptpriority
andycalder/mountain-maps
Jun 2021 - Aug 2021
Explore mountain bike trails in 3D. Created by @andycalder, @jorgeAndArias, @julianoiret and @hongleang.
Contributions:27 reviews, 90 commits, 60 PRs in 2 months
mountaintrailsexploremountain-bikebike
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