Andrea Gunderson
Director, Software Engineering at Bitwise IO, Inc.
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrea Gunderson is a Director of Software Engineering with a decade of experience leading backend-focused teams and shipping distributed systems at Bitwise IO. She blends hands-on development—evidenced by substantive contributions to Hyperledger Sawtooth core and supply-chain components written in Rust—with strategic leadership in a growing engineering organization. Her technical work emphasizes testability, consistency, and robust transaction processing for blockchain projects, while her academic background (BS and MS in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota) underpins a strong foundation in software and data systems. Known for improving integration tests and addressing subtle protocol issues like addressing and nonce handling, she brings a meticulous, systems-minded approach to complex, production-grade codebases.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of MinnesotaSauk Rapids Rice High School
English
Github Skills (15)
unit-testing10
rust10
protobuffer10
protobuf10
hyperledger-sawtooth10
blockchain10
distributed-ledger-technology9
testing9
distributed-ledger9
api8
c-language8
apidoc8
cprogramming-language8
architectures7
architecture7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
hyperledger-archives/sawtooth-core
Jun 2016 - Jan 2022
Core repository for Sawtooth Distributed Ledger
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:69 reviews, 649 commits, 393 PRs in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Andrea focused on adding and modifying various aspects of the Sawtooth distributed ledger's core functionality, with an emphasis on enhancing testability and consistency. Their work involved changing environment variables, allowing multiple URLs in environment variables for market place testing, adding unit tests for gossip core and transaction-related components, and adding sleep time between message init and check of Nounce. They updated the project by switching parameter orders and changing code to update block hash.
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hyperledger-archives/sawtooth-supply-chain
Feb 2018 - Sep 2019
Sawtooth Supply Chain
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 8 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:The user, Andrea Gunderson, primarily focused on the backend aspects of the Sawtooth Supply Chain project. Their contributions include adding an initial Supply Chain transaction processor written in Rust, including the main and handler files. They made updates to the test integration to use supply chain and refactored the supply chain rust code. They also addressed and fixed addressing issues in the rust code, and updated error messages.
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