Hi there!

Andrew Holligan

4th Year MSci Student | Full-Stack Developer

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Projects

  • D2Tracker

    D2Tracker

    Stat tracker site for Destiny 2 which displays and compares player stats

    View and filter a players previous activities

    • React
    • TailwindCSS
    • TypeScript
    • Bungie API
    Website
  • GridSweeper

    GridSweeper

    Online multiplayer web game inspired by Minesweeper

    Create custom grids which other players can play

    Create and join lobbies to play with friends

    Supporting private, coop, and competitive game modes

    • React
    • ASP.NET
    • TailwindCSS
    • TypeScript
    • EntityFrameworkCore
    • PostgreSQl
  • SortingVisualised

    SortingVisualised

    Visualisation of sorting algorithms, developed in pure HTML, CSS and JavaScript

    Change the speed and size of the visualisation

    Includes information on each sorting algorithm

    • HTML
    • CSS
    • JavaScript
    Code

Journey

Intern Developer @ GuitarGuitar

06/2025 - Present

Designed and developed a modern blog platform with a new tagging system, CMS integration, and improved user experience

Created new database tables, models, services, and controllers to fully isolate the new blog from the old, enabling seamless switching via feature flags for backwards compatibility

Wrote SQL scripts to accurately migrate thousands of legacy blog articles into the new database tables

Built an area on the admin portal for the new blog, allowing editors to manage articles, categories, tags, and events

Integrated the new blog with the existing CMS, giving editors full control over articles and the blog homepage, and extended the CMS with custom blog sections

Implemented a shared banner image system to enable image reuse across articles, reducing storage

Duck Sauce Jam

Duck Sauce Jam

02/2025

Developed an online multiplayer web game using a custom Entity Component System

Software Engineer @ Glasgow University Software Service

10/2024 - 05/2025

Led initial development of a policy comparison tool, responsible for full-stack development using Django

Implemented the continuous development pipeline for the tool with GitLab CI/CD on DigitalOcean Ubuntu droplets, aiding future development

Used Cloudflare D1, Workflows, and Workers AI to develop a distributed scraper with two independent workflows for site crawling and data extraction

Optimised performance by trimming unnecessary HTML elements to reduce the context window, and enabling user-defined filters to enqueue URLs based on specific criteria

DYHTG Hackathon

DYHTG Hackathon

10/2024

Developed backend for online multiplayer web game using Colyseus.js for lobby management and Matter.js for physics simulation

Team secured runner-up position for the challenge

DYHTG Hackathon

10/2023

Conducted data analysis on csv datasets using Python and MatPlotLib

Code Olympics

02/2023

Solved a variety of bite-sized algorithmic coding challenges

Coding Tutor @ Code Cadets

01/2023 - Present

Teaching Python, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to young learners, simplifying concepts for better understanding

Led code-along sessions for a simple JavaScript clicker game, fostering a fun and engaging learning experience

MSci Computing Science @ University of Glasgow

09/2022 - 05/2027 (Expected)

Started degree in Computing Science

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