Summary
Andrea Angott is a senior software engineer and technical leader with a decade of experience designing and shipping end-to-end production systems across backend, frontend, and cloud infrastructure. She combines deep Ruby on Rails and Postgres expertise with modern front-end React workflows and pragmatic DevOps using AWS, Docker, and CI pipelines. As a former CTO, she pairs hands-on coding with security, HIPAA compliance, and operational reliability, having led cloud deployments and incident-ready architectures for life sciences applications. Her background in experimental psychology and academic research gives her a data-driven approach to product decisions and a knack for building tooling that improves team effectiveness. Andrea is comfortable building everything from ETL and background job systems to agentic LLM-assisted coding workflows, reflecting a blend of scientific rigor and practical engineering. Based in the Raleigh-Durham area, she excels at translating complex domain requirements into auditable, secure, and maintainable software.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Cognitive Psychology, PhD, Cognitive Psychology at University of Michigan
BS, Chemistry and Psychology, BS, Chemistry and Psychology at Bowling Green State University
Waterford Kettering