Software Engineer & Entrepreneur
I'm Andrew Roberts, an entrepreneurial software engineer building refined software solutions for incredible businesses. I'm a graduate of the University of Delaware College of Engineering with over 5 years of software development and cybersecurity experience building solutions for Citibank, Lutron Electronics and organizations nationwide. I aim to build high-quality scalable software that improves peoples' quality of life.
I'm currently working on an event discovery and ticketing platform focused on delivering exceptional user experience, intricate customer insights, and reduced fees. See my experience for more on this project.
Out There Events is an early stage startup I'm building to redefine the future of event discovery and ticketing for occasions ranging from small meetups and happy hours, to massive music festivals and sporting events. The vision is to be the Amazon of events, a marketplace connecting organizers with attendees while eliminating the excessive fees often imposed by other ticketing platforms. As the founder I have attended conducted market research, attended conferences, spearheaded development of an MVP using SolidJS and am currently assembling a team to help take this project further.
At FNDRSNG, a software company dedicated to empowering small and mid-size nonprofits, I lead the development of a client configurable donation system - an opportunity that arose from my technical expertise and entrepreneurial drive being recognized by FNDRSNG's founder and former professor of mine. I architected and built a web application designed to seamlessly integrate with FNDRSNG's broader suite of solutions while minimizing transaction fees. Developed using the Deno Fresh Framework with Firebase as the backend, this platform prioritized resilience, architected such that every transaction was fully accounted for and recoverable in the event of an error to ensure client trust.
As an embedded firmware engineer at Lutron Electronics, I developed a wireless firmware restoration tool for flashing Ketra devices to a pre-assembly state to enhance production flexibility. To achieve this I modified the firmware of a Ketra debugging device based on the Silicon Labs EFR32 to support large data transfers over Openthread. I then developed a C# module that utilized the debugging device to transmit new firmware to the Ketra devices over the air. Finally, I built a C# application that used the module to pair with Ketra devices and flash pre-assembly firmware to the device along with device-specific calibration data. I conducted over 1000 tests to ensure my solution was robust enough to reset hundreds of devices.
As a software engineer I collaborated with a team of interns to develop and deploy an Angular application utilizing Docker and Jenkins. In pursuit of optimizing business costs, I designed and built an Angular component to replace AG Grid, reducing annual licensing expenses by $80,000 while maintaining the functionality and performance needed for internal applications.
Prehash Authentication introduces a reimagined security approach to password management that eliminates risks associated with weak or reused credentials without requiring users to change their habits. Unlike traditional password managers, Prehash Authentication does not store or transmit passwords, instead generating a per-site cryptographic salt that is applied to a provided password during authentication meaning users can use weaker or reused passwords without compromising their security. Even if an attacker gained access to a user's salts, they would still need their original password to reconstruct the site-specific hash. This concept was theorized and implemented as a Chrome extension by myself along with 3 innovative peers during the HenHacks 2025 24-hour hackathon.
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The JAN compiler is an academic project developed by myself along with 2 other engineers during my time at the University of Delaware. During this project we designed a minimal, strongly-typed programming language and built a language compiler entirely in TypeScript. Our compiler can build for WebAssembly and RISC-V assembly targets based on flags passed at compile time. To ensure reliability and integrity we wrote over 360 tests using the Vitest framework achieving 99% code coverage.
Investment Insights is a proof-of-concept market paper trading platform designed to educate users on the stock market and investing through real-time data and AI-driven insights. Developed over 24 hours during the HenHacks 2024 Hackathon, the platform integrates Polygon.io and Financial Modeling Prep APIs to provide up-to-date market data. This data is then processed through ChatGPT, which generates clear, digestible explanations tailored for novice investors. By combining live financial data with AI-powered education, Investment Insights encourages new investors to engage with the stock market, transforming complex market trends into accessible, actionable knowledge.
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