Andrew Latimer
VP Of Engineering at Rabbet
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Latimer is a seasoned software engineering leader with 15 years of experience guiding product-driven teams to ship scalable web applications. Based in Austin, he is currently VP of Engineering at Rabbet, leading a fully remote organization across the US, Canada, and LatAm with a focus on mentorship, servant leadership, and product-focused engineering. At Trellis, he built and managed a multi-region engineering organization (US, Canada, LatAm), coordinated a multi-month Top-10 FI partner launch on-time, and delivered a >30% lift in revenue per visitor while reducing voluntary turnover. As CTO and co-founder of Rabbet, he steered the company from MVP to a scalable platform serving 100+ enterprise customers, and fostered a culture of ownership, product focus, and mentorship. He also contributes to the open-source Ruby/Rails ecosystem, notably optimizing the Rabl templating engine’s caching and parallel data fetch capabilities. He holds a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Texas at El Paso and is a YC S17 alumnus.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, Math (minor), BS, Computer Science, Math (minor) at The University of Texas at El PasoS17, S17 at Y Combinator
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Github Skills (18)
caching10
ruby10
performance-optimization10
templating9
rails8
ruby-rails8
json7
nohup6
paperclip6
fog6
ruby-on-rails6
stdin6
cobol6
apache6
plist5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nesquena/rabl
Mar 2013 - Jun 2013
General ruby templating with json, bson, xml, plist and msgpack support
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Andrew focused on improving the caching mechanism within the Rabl templating engine, enhancing its performance. The contributions involved refactoring the `read_multi` functionality for parallel fetching, optimizing cache key generation, and integrating with different cache engines. Furthermore, the user added the ability to disable `read_multi` and fixed issues related to how cached items were being returned.
msgpackbsontemplatingplistxml
ahlatimer/lazy_resource
Jul 2012 - Dec 2014
Contributions:141 commits in 2 years 4 months
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