Summary
Andres Carrera is a pragmatic software engineer with nine years of experience building backend systems and cloud platforms, currently developing patient data aggregation and viewing services at ARUP Laboratories. He thrives on crafting "beautiful and functional" code, pairing systems thinking with hands-on work across cloud, hardware-adjacent firmware, and Python-backed services. Andres has a track record of paying down technical debt, improving deployment and monitoring, and mentoring others from his time at Level Home, Dwelo, and as an academic coach. He blends QA and automation experience with production engineering, giving him a keen eye for resilience and observability. Based in West Valley City, Utah, he enjoys teaching and troubleshooting—comfortable breaking systems to learn how to make them stronger.
10 years of coding experience