Andrew Aylward
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Swampscott, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Aylward is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years building reliable, high-scale systems across observability, payments, DNS, and ML platforms. He’s held senior engineering roles at Datadog, Stripe, Akamai, and Amazon, leading work on financial systems and DNS products as well as Alexa’s ML platform. Comfortable across the stack, he blends product-focused engineering with strong testing and code quality practices—demonstrated by contributions to HubSpot’s humanize utility where he improved formatting logic and test coverage. Based in Swampscott, MA, he pairs a BA in Mathematics and Electronic Music with a history of technical leadership and early entrepreneurial experience co-founding a music production startup. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic, detail-oriented, and adept at turning ambiguous requirements into maintainable, production-ready services.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BA Mathematics Electronic Music, BA Mathematics Electronic Music at Wesleyan University
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Github Skills (20)
javascript10
coffeescript10
python10
testing10
beautifulsoup10
unicode10
unit-testing9
jquery9
http9
nodejs9
html9
string-formatting8
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
HubSpot/humanize
Jun 2013 - Aug 2014
A simple utility library for making the web more humane. #hubspot-open-source
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:66 commits, 1 PR, 3 branches in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the `humanize` library by making formatting changes and adding tests. Their work included updating existing code, such as the `compactInteger` function, and adding new test cases for title casing and hyphenated words. They also addressed code style by removing unnecessary spaces and ensuring correct scientific notation. The user demonstrated proficiency in both the library's core functionality and the testing framework.
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muchq/LunarCat
Feb 2017 - Apr 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 36 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 2 months
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