Drew Waddell
Development Team Lead at Orchard Software
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDrew Waddell is a seasoned development team lead with 14 years of hands-on experience building web and desktop applications, currently leading engineering at Orchard Software. He blends modern front-end expertise in Vue.js, Kendo, and jQuery with a deep systems background in Java, JavaFX, C/C++ and legacy 4th Dimension platforms. Drew’s career reflects long-term ownership and incremental modernization efforts—bringing older codebases forward while shipping polished UIs and reliable back-end logic. Educated in computer science at Butler with earlier studies in electrical engineering technology at Purdue, he combines practical engineering rigor with a hardware-aware perspective. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture decisions, mentorship, and sustaining complex production systems over many years.
14 years of coding experience
Electric Engineering Technology, Electric Engineering Technology at Purdue UniversityBachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Butler University
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Github Skills (13)
taskbar10
jquery9
inno-setup9
windows-application9
windows7
blueimp6
jquery-ui6
jquery-plugin6
css6
html6
jquery-file-upload6
javascript6
attr6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
OrchardSoftware/4D-Win32API
Apr 2012 - Jan 2020
Win32API is a plugin for 4th Dimension that lets your Windows applications take advantage of Windows-specific features that are not exposed by native 4th Dimension commands. Win32API lets you set a custom icon for any window, change the name of your 4D application in the title bar and task bar, customize file open and save dialogs, get information from the Regional Settings control panel, and much more.
Contributions:90 commits, 1 push, 3 comments in 7 years 10 months
taskbarwindowswindows-application
OrchardSoftware/kotlin-eclipse
Oct 2018 - Nov 2018
Kotlin Plugin for Eclipse
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes in 27 days
kotlinjavaeclipse
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