Andrew Balmer
Senior Software Engineer at Klaviyo
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Balmer is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building mobile-first products and leading iOS teams for enterprise clients like Fidelity and Bose, now contributing at Klaviyo. He combines a background in city and regional planning with an MS in Computer Science, which informs a practical, data-aware approach to product design—evident in his consumer-facing app Tailwinds that maps wind to route direction. Technically fluent in SwiftUI, Combine, MVVM, and testing with XCTest, he has shipped greenfield features, led cross-functional teams, mentored junior engineers, and run hiring interviews. Andrew also contributes to civic-focused open-source work, updating scrapers for the well-regarded City Bureau city-scrapers project, showing an interest in public data and robust back-end systems.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Architecture, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Architecture at Columbia UniversityMaster of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at University of ChicagoMaster of City and Regional Planning Transportation Planning, Master of City and Regional Planning Transportation Planning at Rutgers University
Github Skills (9)
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python10
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pytest9
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
City-Bureau/city-scrapers
May 2018 - Jul 2018
Scrape, standardize and share public meetings from local government websites
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 8 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on modifying and updating data scraping spiders for the "city-scrapers" project. Their commits involved adapting existing code to new schemas and updating meeting classifications within the data extraction process. Specifically, the user updated the spider files to reflect changes in the data structure of meeting information from various sources, ensuring that the project maintained its core functionality of collecting and standardizing local government meeting data. This included changes to Python files and related testing files.
city-scraperspythonscrapyscrapestandardize
ab1470/js-basics-online-shopping-lab-bootcamp-prep-000
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:241 pushes in 1 day
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