Andrew Beveridge

Curve engineers were frustrated by various friction elements in their development and deployment processes, and as the lead of the newly-formed developer experience team, I wanted to fix that.

One of the major projects I chose to tackle was inconsistency in our VCS systems and CI tooling. Despite still being a fairly young Series C startup with only 120 engineers, we had repos in both Bitbucket and GitHub, had Jenkins and CircleCI, and our pipeline configurations were all over the place. The pathway to deploy a change to production varied wildly depending on the repo, and we had no consistent scanning or testing in place, both of which caused many other problems.

I decided to embark on an ambitious consolidation plan and had to do a lot of convincing to get engineers to trust my team and me early on and let us make changes, as some of them loved the existing tools.

Eventually, though over six-month planning, implementation, and migration period, I managed to get all repos onto a self-hosted, scalable GitLab instance running in our EKS cluster, with standardized CI/CD templates used by all repos and security scanning for all deployments. I was so satisfied when I finally shut down our Bitbucket and GitHub orgs!

PODFather had been dependent on aging, rugged Windows Mobile 6.5 devices to run the handheld component of their software. This captured proof of delivery data out in the field, a critical part of the software-as-a-service offering. As smartphones gained popularity, I saw an opportunity to supercharge the product capabilities.

I built an Android (and shortly after, iOS) app from the ground up to replace the existing WM handhelds, implementing all of the core functionality in JavaScript with my hybrid app stub encapsulating a WebView. This gave us similar functionality to what you'd expect from modern hybrid solutions like React Native or Cordova, but before those existed and with more control over the native components such as background GPS tracking and geofencing.

After I pitched my demo Android app to the company directors, they were impressed enough to let me build a new team to develop the apps more, and we ended up pivoting the entire business model to center around customers using the smartphone apps rather than the expensive, rugged handhelds they used to have to lease from us.

A client had a very specific idea of what they wanted for a microsite showcasing a new product they were launching, but they had a limited budget and needed to be able to easily edit the content on their own.

I built and deployed a customizable WordPress website, including a complex frame-by-frame 3D scrolling animation, then taught them how to modify and add their own content in the future.