Andreas Wiede
Senior Software Engineer at Affirm
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolAndreas Wiede is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience designing and operating data-intensive, distributed systems and APIs, currently based in Washington, D.C. He has led large-scale batch infrastructure and migration efforts—containerizing legacy Airflow workloads and building a Kubernetes-based compute and scheduling platform that runs 1400+ jobs used by over 50 teams. Andreas couples deep operational focus (observability, SLA alerting, resiliency programs) with hands-on engineering, having driven a ~50% reduction in financial processing outages and delivered cost-optimized platforms for peak traffic. His background includes federated search and distributed tracing work at Mapbox, contributions to OpenTelemetry-Rust, and full-stack API migrations to AWS at Capital One, reflecting a blend of systems design, performance engineering, and customer-facing collaboration. A mathematician by training who studied both math and German literature, he brings analytical rigor and clear communication to complex infrastructure challenges.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics at American UniversityGerman Language and Literature, German Language and Literature at Freie Universität Berlin
English, German, Lithuanian, Spanish
Github Skills (50)
codegen10
zipkin10
api10
sdk10
jaeger10
graphql-tools10
opentelemetry10
logging10
dataloader10
graphiql9
golang9
prometheus9
otel9
artemis9
rust9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
awiede/wmata-go-sdk
Feb 2019 - May 2019
WIP - Go client for WMATA API
Contributions:1 release, 90 commits, 18 PRs in 2 months
golangapigo-clientwipwmata-api
awiede/opentelemetry-rust
Jul 2020 - Dec 2020
OpenTelemetry API and SDK for Rust
Contributions:83 pushes, 12 branches in 4 months
apirusttracingsdkopentelemetry-api
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