Andrew Hunter
Self Employed
Alcoa, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Hunter is an independent software engineer and open-source author with over 15 years of experience building production Rails and JavaScript applications across nonprofit fundraising, ecommerce, education, and government sectors. He pairs hands-on full-stack expertise (Rails, Vue/React/Next, Tailwind, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch) with tech leadership—mentoring teams, driving architectural decisions, and shipping flagship features at companies like MobileCause, LivingSocial, and EVERFI/Blackbaud. His widely adopted Ruby gems (Blocks and TableFor) have amassed over half a million downloads, and he’s contributed to staples like CanCan and ThinkingSphinx. Recently he’s been exploring AI-augmented development, having delivered a production marketing site end-to-end using Claude Code and Cursor-integrated workflows. He also writes and illustrates a children’s picture book, signaling an uncommon mix of technical depth and creative practice. Based in Alcoa/Knoxville, he’s open to senior engineering and tech lead roles, remote or local.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (MA) Computer Science, Master of Arts (MA) Computer Science at Boston University
English, German
Stackoverflow
647reputation
84kreached
12answers
4questions
Github Skills (59)
aspect10
mvc10
blocks10
rails10
ruby10
verbatim10
vuejs210
utility10
overriding10
html10
activerecord10
actionview10
templating10
ruby-on-rails10
vue-table9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
hunterae/vue-slot-hooks
Dec 2018 - Feb 2021
Contributions:1 PR, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
hunterae/blocks
Dec 2010 - Sep 2020
Blocks makes it easy to define blocks of code that can be rendered either verbatim or with replacements and modifications at some later point in time.
Contributions:189 commits, 12 PRs, 223 pushes in 9 years 10 months
modificationsmarkup-languagepoint-in-timepointutility
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