Andrew Lisowski

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About

I'm a Front End Engineer with a passion for sweating the details. Building good UI is easy, building great UI is hard. I love the challenge of creating interfaces that are both beautiful and functional for a wide range of users.

Work

Snowflake

2025 - Present
Senior Software Engineer (L3)

Accelerated design system delivery by 12+ weeks, compressing 3-4 quarter roadmap into single quarter. Pioneered AI-enabled documentation infrastructure. Automatee release pipelines to reduce cycle time from hours to minutes. Overhauled icon system. Which all transformed design system NPS from 20% to 80%, all while mentoring engineers across multiple teams in performance optimization, accessibility, and system design.

Descript

2021 - 2025
Senior Software Engineer (L3, L4)

Implemented a new design system and component library to completely redesign the app, modernized the codebase into a proper monorepo, helped bring the electron app to the web, and implemented an E2E testing framework on top of playwright.

Intuit - TurboTax

2013 - 2021
Intern => Senior Software Engineer

Interned on 3 different product teams, getting hired on full time in 2016 to work on a client rendering library and a design system. That eventually led to my team being leaders in the design systems and front end tooling space at the company, eventually leading to me becoming the "Open Source Leader" for the San Diego office.

Education

Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

2011 - 2016
Bachelors - Computer Science

Skills

Projects

Graze

The biggest feed generator for Bluesky with a Scratch-like programming language.

DevtoolsFM

A podcast about developer tools and the people who make them.

kikbak.tv

Scans 1000s of music blogs daily to create a top 100 list

GitHub Activity Viewer

Organizes your GitHub activity feed to find trending repos among your network.

Pitchforkify

Combines Pitchfork's reviews with Spotify's API for easy listening.

intuit/auto

Generate releases based on semantic version labels on pull requests.

react-docgen-typescript-plugin

A webpack plugin to inject react typescript docgen information

And many more...

300+ repositories on GitHub