Andrew Carlson
Group Director, Technology at VMLY&R
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Summary
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RockstarAndrew Carlson is a seasoned technology leader with 11 years of experience architecting and delivering web-based experiences for major brands from his base in Kansas City. As Group Director, Technology at VMLY&R he blends hands-on front-end expertise—JavaScript, PHP, UX and e-commerce—with team leadership and cross-client standards work to drive consistent, scalable delivery. He has led engineering efforts for clients like Ford, Honeywell and Phillips 66, championing best practices and improved communication across client-side teams. Comfortable toggling between code and strategy, Andrew contributes to open-source front-end tooling—most notably improving the Ridiculously Responsive Social Sharing Buttons to support multiple instances and HackerNews sharing. His background in marketing and early hands-on roles gives him a pragmatic appreciation for design, performance and measurable business impact. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex requirements into maintainable, user-focused solutions.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (8)
html10
javascript10
shared10
css9
svg8
facebook7
linkedin7
twitter7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
kni-labs/rrssb
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
:arrow_right_hook: Ridiculously Responsive Social Sharing Buttons
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 21 comments in 11 days
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the front-end of the "Ridiculously Responsive Social Sharing Buttons" project. Their main contribution was updating the HTML structure of the social sharing buttons, removing redundant IDs from SVG elements to allow for multiple instances. The user also added a HackerNews sharing button. Furthermore, the user updated the JavaScript file to include a sharing link for HackerNews.
social-buttonssharingarrowpinterestinstagram
andrewicarlson/nova-link-field
Aug 2018 - Dec 2020
A custom field type for Laravel Nova that allows for HTML anchors in the admin experience.
Contributions:2 releases, 11 commits, 3 PRs in 2 years 4 months
laravel-nova
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