Andrew Barba
Software Engineer at Cheers Cash
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Barba is a software engineer with 13 years building large distributed systems, serverless frameworks, and high-performance mobile and web products, currently at Vercel in New York. He has held leadership roles including CTO and Head of Engineering, shipping consumer-facing apps and payment flows (over $15M processed) and an offline-first iOS venue management platform used in multiple countries. A pragmatic polyglot comfortable in Swift, TypeScript, Node and MongoDB, he contributes to well-known open-source serverless projects—enhancing lambda-api and Lift with features that improve compatibility and SQS FIFO support. Andrew combines hands-on engineering with product-focused research and UX sensitivity, and he pairs operational DevOps experience with a track record of improving testing and serialization for production systems.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Candidate for Bachelor of Science in the College of Computer and Information Science Computer Science, Candidate for Bachelor of Science in the College of Computer and Information Science Computer Science at Northeastern UniversityInternational Baccalaureate Diploma Computer Science Mathematics, International Baccalaureate Diploma Computer Science Mathematics at West Morris Central High School
English
Github Skills (20)
javascript10
aws-cdk10
apidoc10
amazon-sqs10
testing10
aws-sqs-fifo10
aws-lambda10
api10
aws10
api-gateway10
serverless-framework10
serverless10
nodejs10
gzip9
typescript9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
jeremydaly/lambda-api
Oct 2019 - Jul 2021
Lightweight web framework for your serverless applications
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 17 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and flexibility of the lambda-api framework. They implemented features such as decoding query parameters from ALB, supporting custom serializers for responses (including base64 and gzip compression), and adding the ability to set custom default headers. These additions improved the framework's compatibility, performance, and customization options for developers building serverless applications. Furthermore, they contributed to the testing suite, ensuring the robustness of the new functionalities.
api-gatewayapiserverless-applicationsaws-lambdaserverless
getlift/lift
Aug 2021 - Sep 2021
Expanding Serverless Framework beyond functions using the AWS CDK
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 16 commits, 3 PRs in 22 days
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the implementation and configuration of SQS FIFO queues within the serverless framework. They added support for features like message group IDs, content-based deduplication, and disabling batching windows for FIFO queues. The user also fixed tests to ensure the correct behavior of the queue constructs. These contributions focused on enhancing the functionality and configuration of SQS queues within the Lift framework.
serverlessaws-lambdaserverless-pluginexpandingaws
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