AI Summary
Generated by Claude
Andres is a Senior Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building web applications that people genuinely enjoy using. He's particularly at home with Vue.js and TypeScript, having led frontend development teams and shipped everything from enterprise media platforms to webRTC softphones. Originally from Colombia and now based in the UK, he recently became a dad—so while side projects are on hold, he's still finding moments to tinker with AI coding tools between nappy changes.
Technical Skills
Experience
Senior Software Engineer
Cision
Senior Software Engineer on Cision One, an enterprise media monitoring platform used by Fortune 500 companies for real-time media intelligence. Contributing full-stack features using Vue.js 3, Ruby on Rails, and GraphQL APIs. Working with Elasticsearch for search infrastructure and GCP for cloud deployments.
Senior Software Engineer
Cision (Buzzsumo)
Senior Software Engineer in the Buzzsumo product team, building features for content discovery and influencer marketing used by content marketers worldwide. Primary focus on frontend development with Vue.js and TypeScript, with PHP/Laravel backend contributions.
Lead Frontend Developer
Windsor Telecom
Led frontend development within an agile Kanban team for a cloud telephony provider. Championed Vue.js adoption across the organization and delivered multiple products including CRM systems, customer portals, and a production webRTC softphone PWA serving thousands of daily users. Reduced call center software costs by transitioning from desktop apps to web-based solutions.
Senior Web Developer
Windsor Telecom
Promoted to Senior Web Developer, leading complex projects and mentoring junior developers. Architected and delivered customer-facing billing portals and internal tools using PHP/Laravel and JavaScript. Introduced modern frontend practices and began evaluating Vue.js for future projects.
Web Developer
Windsor Telecom
Developed and maintained web applications for cloud telephony services, building customer portals and internal tools. Worked across the full stack with PHP/Laravel and JavaScript, integrating with telephony APIs and real-time communication systems.
Junior Software Developer
Impact Research Ltd
Developed analytics tools and automated data processing solutions for market research projects. Built Excel-based applications using VBA to streamline reporting workflows, reducing manual data processing time significantly.
Education
BSc IT Management for Business (ITMB)
University of the West of England
Bachelor's Degree
Beyond the Code
// The person behind the commits
const andres = {
origin: "Colombia 🇨🇴",
currentChapter: "New dad to Arianna (2025) 👶",
interests: [
"Football (Lincoln City)", "Coffee", "Craft beer", "Family adventures"
],
currentlyExploring: [
"Claude Code", "Cursor", "GitHub Copilot", "ChatGPT", "Gemini"
],
// Always building something
sideProjects: [
{
name: "one-question",
description: "AI-powered daily tracker scoring the likelihood of AI replacing software engineers",
link: "one-question.andresjanes.com",
},
{
name: "feed-ai",
description: "AI-powered RSS aggregation that fetches, summarises, and delivers a curated evening digest",
link: "feed-ai.andresjanes.com",
},
{
name: "CPI",
description: "Client site for Cathodic Protection International",
link: "cpi.andresjanes.com",
},
{
name: "andresjanes.com",
description: "This portfolio — Vue 3, TypeScript, Tailwind",
link: "andresjanes.com",
}
],
};
export default andres;Recommendations
"Andres is a calm and collected professional, who has demonstrated a willingness (and natural ability) to step outside of his role and support company initiatives, using some of his energizing strengths (critical thinking, detail orientation and resilience) to come up with solutions, not problems, and really add value."
"Andres is a professional, efficient, solution orientated developer who it has been a pleasure to work with. Within his role he has happily taken on increasingly challenging tasks - whilst remaining calm, approachable and crucially maintaining a sense of humour."
"Being Andres line manager has been a rewarding experience. He learns new skills very fast, has an excellent manner with clients (both internal and external) and takes a calm an pragmatic approach to challenges which arise. He's shown great aptitude with the VBA, SQL and Laravel PHP tasks we've had. Working on a variety of UI/view systems and complex back end calculations. Of particular note, he has been key in migrating our team to use agile project management. This is a little different to normal, in that our workflow combines programming and analysis tasks. He's taken point with this and it's been enormously helpful."