Andreas Backx
Production Engineer at Meta
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndreas Backx is a Production Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently working on Meta’s CLI Foundation team in London where he focuses on making developer tooling robust and scalable. He brings deep backend expertise, having contributed to well-known open-source projects like Click and LogDevice, improving shell completion, type hinting, and distributed storage tooling. Andreas has a strong testing and quality mindset—refactoring test suites, adding Tox and Flake8 integration, and fixing subtle bugs around soft/hard deletes and foreign key behavior. His background blends hands-on startup experience as a co-founder (Cloock, Lunchbreak) with formal engineering training in electronics and information technology from Odisee and Ghent University. Comfortable across Python, Go, and C++ ecosystems, he gravitates toward operationally resilient systems and developer-facing infrastructure. An under-the-radar strength is his knack for making maintenance and idempotency improvements that reduce operational toil in large-scale services.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Information Engineering Technology, Master of Science - MS, Information Engineering Technology at Ghent UniversityBachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Electronics and Information Technology, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Electronics and Information Technology at Odisee
Dutch, English, French, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
debug10
click-through10
python10
back-end-development10
onclick10
django10
testing10
oneclick10
cluster-manager10
cluster-api10
backend10
clustering10
cli10
command-line-interface9
thrift9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
pallets/click
Oct 2016 - Mar 2025
Python composable command line interface toolkit
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 41 PRs, 59 pushes in 8 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Andreas primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the `click` library, which is a Python command-line interface toolkit. Their work involved resolving issues related to shell completion, type hinting, and editing functionality. They also addressed resource management issues and expanded on the choices for the command line interface. Furthermore, the user corrected some type hinting issues and expanded the tokenization logic for more flexibility.
twinepythonsubcommandsconsolecommand-line-interface
makinacorpus/django-safedelete
Dec 2016 - Apr 2017
Mask your objects instead of deleting them from your database.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 review, 20 commits, 4 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Andreas primarily focused on refactoring and improving the testing infrastructure for the `django-safedelete` project. This included refactoring existing tests related to soft deletes and hard deletes, as well as signals. Furthermore, the user addressed a bug related to hard deleting foreign keys and added support for Tox and Flake8 for code quality checks.
djangopythondatabasemask
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