Hi, I'm Andrew Hurle

2018

• Cognius became Hopjump 🧳

  Focus changed to the travel industry, more product-oriented

• Built Hopjump's hotel booking website from scratch 🏨

  Ruby on Rails plus good ol' HAML and SASS

• Hired two more direct reports 🤝

• Visited Lake Tahoe ⛷️

• Visited London 🇬🇧

  Went to this, this, and got my steps in

• Visited Hawaii 🏖️

  I recommend the Polynesian Cultural Center and Volcanoes National Park

2017

• Promoted (side-moted?) to Lead Software Engineer 🧑‍💻

  Inherited one direct report

• Became a Certified ScrumMaster™®© 📒

  I am good at Jira

• Visited Paris 🇫🇷

  First time outside the US!

• Visited DC 🏛️

2016

• Promoted to Senior, then Principal Software Engineer 👴

• Built a Rails app backing 7 websites to secure a new revenue stream 💸

2015

• Made a type-safe Ruby DSL for building marketing decision trees 🌳

  Thanks to the Contracts library and a lot of wacky metaprogramming

• Became a halfway decent cook 🍲

• Visited NYC 🗽

2014

• Built a 30MM req/day job search service w/ Scala and ElasticSearch 🔍

  80% of the company's revenue passed through this system so that was quite a lot of responsibility!

• Went to a lot of concerts/raves/festivals 🕺

• Built my first PC

2013

• Graduated from Worcester Polytechnic Institute with a BS in CS 🎓

• Moved to Cambridge, MA 🏠

• Started at Cognius as a Software Engineer 🏢

  First eng hire! Job search slash email marketing (think Indeed, Monster).

• Learned Ruby on Rails very intensely and fell in love with it ❤️

2012

• Interned at Mozilla for the summer in Mountain View, CA 🦊

  Fun fact: If you used Firefox around 2013 then you've already seen some of my work

• Switched from Windows to Ubuntu 🐧

  This made my classes more... fun, especially Computer Graphics. I also made a nasty Python script to sync music to my phone from foobar2000 running under Wine off my Windows partition.

2011

• Created Distillery so I could enumerate shared Steam games ♨️

  Since then, Steam implemented its own limited version of this and there are dedicated websites like SteamCompanion. Looking back, this project was kind of neat because I invented my own janky MVC UI framework pre-React and before Angular was really a thing.

2009

• Began studying Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute 📚

  I also worked at the IT Helpdesk and fixed people's computers

• Learned JS to make lots of goofy userscripts 📜

• Created IGN++ ✨

  This was a Firefox/Chrome extension that added ~Web 2.0 AJAX~ to a forum to improve its UX. It had like 400 users at its peak and I was very proud of it. Vanilla JS.

2008

• Started my first programming class in high school 🧑‍🏫

  In C++, perhaps the worst language to start with

• Implemented games like Conway's Game of Life, Snake, Pong 🕹️

  I also ported pong to run on my hacked PSP 🤙

• Did a few challenges on Project Euler 🧩

• Learned CSS so I could create dope userstyles 💅

• Also took some kind of Web Design class 🔗

2007

• Learned Flash in a high school class, and got good at Photoshop 📸

  Maybe copy/pasting some ActionScript was my first exposure to code

~1999-2004

• Played a lot of StarCraft and Unreal (Tournament) 🖱️

  I remember creating custom StarCraft maps and messing around in Unreal's dev console

~1998

• First home computer 🖥️

  My favorite pastimes were Kid Pix and printing out pages of webdings

~1997

• First time on the internet thanks to WebTV 📺

  I used it to listen to the soundtrack from Back To The Future

~1995

• First gaming console - a Sony PlayStation 🎮

  I remember playing on a NES, SNES, Genesis, and Macintosh, but this was the first one that my family owned. Ridge Racer, WipEout, and later THPS massively influenced my taste in music.