Full-Stack
Engineer.
Building performant, polished web experiences with equal parts grit and grace.
Skills
Frontend
Backend & APIs
Cloud & Infrastructure
AI & Tooling
Experience
- Built performant, SEO-optimized React systems powering high-traffic ecommerce product, landing, and campaign surfaces.
- Implemented a CMS-agnostic Universal Content Ingestion layer to decouple frontend rendering from content providers.
- Contributed to migration from CoreMedia to Amplience and influenced frontend architecture across multiple seasonal launches.
- Led frontend development for the cross-platform Challenges feature across web, iOS, and Android.
- Implemented a backend mobile push notification pipeline using AWS Lambda and Firebase.
- Engineered a high-performance bidirectional infinite leaderboard using TanStack Query supporting tens of thousands of records.
- Founded and scaled a $1M/year backstage hospitality company serving major tours and 70,000+ attendee festivals.
- Clients included Elton John, Live Nation, AEG, MGM Resorts, and Firefly Music Festival.
Design & Development
Full ownership of UX/UI design and engineering on each project, built during App Academy (2020–2021). No longer deployed — source code available on GitHub.
Lesson Block
EdTech platform inspired by Khan Academy that allows instructors to create new video courses and students to enroll through a marketplace.
- Dynamically rendered a dual-auth UI/UX between instructors and students by leveraging React's dynamic permission handling and boolean database columns.
- Isolated PostgreSQL's functionality with Docker to increase portability between development and production hosting on Heroku.
- Implemented React Player to reduce server load and allow for flexible, scalable, multi-channel video display instead of hosting video data directly.
Artizen
Community driven street art aggregator inspired by MapMyRun that leverages several Google Maps API packages.
- Integrated Google Maps API with geocoding and route creation to display art locations and allow users to create planned routes to visit them.
- Implemented a combination of JavaScript array methods and local state manipulation to temporarily add/remove art locations to a user's lists before submission.
- Systematically implemented user testing to locate functional and console errors as well as create a smooth UX.
Rock The Cradle
E-commerce platform inspired by Rent the Runway for newborn couture fashion and equipment items for rent.
- Deployed an inventory management system that harnesses Redux's unidirectional data flow to reliably track rental inventory.
- Built a backend database architecture leveraging Sequelize and PostgreSQL's Many-to-Many relationships to reduce the number of tables by 20%.
- Leveraged AWS cloud computing to ensure consistent availability of image data and optimize database performance.
Good Builds
A community platform for flat pack furniture enthusiasts to share their custom builds, browse components, and rate each other's setups.
Before the Code
The eye for experience didn't start with a text editor. Before writing a line of code, I spent a decade designing and producing large-scale events — concepting spaces, managing production, and sweating every detail from floorplan to finish. That same instinct for how things feel to the people inside them is what I bring to every interface I build.
Let's build something.
Open to full-time roles, contracts, and interesting side projects.
andrewcohen14@gmail.com · 443-622-1902