| Medium | Contact |
|---|---|
| andy@vanosdale.com | |
| Phone | +1 (206) 617-3349 |
| https://linkedin.com/in/andyvanosdale | |
| GitHub | https://github.com/andyvanosdale |
| https://twitter.com/andyvanosdale |
Solution architect, team lead, software engineer, and consulting business owner with over 15 years of professional experience with web apps and backends, consumer mobile apps, and event-driven supply chain systems, all in full-time and independent contractor positions.
November 2019 - Present / Nordstrom / Seattle, WA
- Architected event-driven system to translate events between third-party warehouse system
- System comprised of over 22 micro services and background jobs with 5 separate environments (testing and production)
- System running on Kubernetes and continuously deployed via GitLab runners and Terraform
- Team lead of 6 junior and senior engineers and overseas contracting agency to develop system in one year
- Reviewed third-party functional and interface specifications for warehouse management and execution systems
- Review of system designs from other teams to ensure standards compliance and engineering and architecture practices
November 2018 – Present / Pioneer Ridge Properties, LLC / Seattle, WA; Chattanooga, TN
- Owner of 26 units, 11 multi-family houses, $1.4M in assets, $16k MRR
- Building web app to manage current and potential properties and deals
August 2018 – Present / WAVIISoft, LLC / Seattle, WA
- Contracted to fitness CRM company to add functionality to existing native Android and iOS applications
- Update build system due to new Apple App Store submission requirements
March 2018 – November 2019 / LIFFFT, Inc. (PeloTech) / Seattle, WA
- Contracted to retail company to design and build solutions for dropship and supply chain issues
- Architecting event-driven system processing inbound and outbound messages for new omnichannel facility
- System built on Java 11, Kubernetes, and Kafka
- Built serverless and Java services to integrate systems together to achieve high availability and throughput
- Built monorepo with full integration, idempotent, and deterministic testing and continuous deployment
- Mentored, coached, and lead junior and senior developers on principled engineering practices
- Advised principal engineers and managers on principled team practices
April 2015 – March 2018 / Pike 13 Inc / Seattle, WA
- Ruby on Rails full-stack developer delivering major features for customers worldwide
- Designed and implemented dozens of RESTful APIs with public documentation
- Developed and improved existing Rails web app using Angular, HTML5, and JavaScript
- Prototyped iOS application in one day with React Native; maintained two existing iOS Obj-C apps
- Managed contract team and co-developed white-labeled Android and iOS apps
- Wrote scripts to provision, setup, build, upload, and publish apps, going from 2 hours to 20 mins
July 2012 – April 2015 / Amazon.com / Seattle, WA
- Publicly launched the Amazon Mobile Ads Android SDK/API
- Instituted unit testing, driving code coverage to over 50% through new features and refactoring
- Created an emulated advertising service for rapid prototyping, feature development, and test automation
- Designed and coded framework and architecture for mobile interstitial and video advertising
- Lead team of 3 developers using agile and scrum methodologies to deliver multiple releases of API
- Mentored 2 interns to successful project completion
November 2011 – December 2016 / Dance Your App Off LLC / Seattle, WA
- Scoped and outsourced for mobile app and service to deliver dance video instruction to dancers worldwide
- Designed and developed scorekeeping service for dance events
November 2007 – June 2012 / Microsoft Corporation / Redmond, WA
- Designed and architected new e-mail application that componentized areas for easy feature development
- Designed, architected, and led team of developers to deliver conversation view feature
- Debugged issues at C++ and assembly level and widely respected by team for debugging
May 2006 – November 2007 / Microsoft Corporation / Redmond, WA
May 2005 – August 2005 / Microsoft Corporation / Redmond, WA
February 2004 – August 2004 / Volt Technical Services / Redmond, WA
- Supported end-user testers for Windows Media Center
- Customized computers for Microsoft executives
- Built ASP.NET web application for summer intern to track metrics from testing programs
May 2002 - May 2010 / Tennessee Future Business Leaders of America / Nashville, TN
- Built and maintained ASP.NET web application to register student competitors for state conventions
- Built and maintained PowerPoint add-on to build contest placement slide deck from scoring database
May 2002 - November 2005 / East Ridge High School / East Ridge, TN
- Built and maintained ASP web application to track student discipline issues across school
- Maintained teacher and administration computers
- Advised on technology purchases
May 2001 - August 2001 / Hamilton County Department of Education / Chattanooga, TN
- Supported county school system computers and network across dozens of schools
Java, Kafka, Kubernetes, GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, AWS, Javascript, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Kotlin, Swift, C#, HTML5, CSS, Objective-C, React, React Native, Go, NodeJS, C++
August 2002 – May 2006 / University of Tennessee at Chattanooga / Chattanooga, TN
- Developed GPS software code for the university’s DARPA Grand Challenge vehicle
- Developed vehicle tracking system to notify customers when vehicle approaches specific points
- Boy Scouts of America Eagle Scout (2002), Order of the Arrow Vigil Honor (2002)
- American Institute of Public Service Local Jefferson Award (2002 - Chattanooga, TN)