Summary
Andrew 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