Andrew Biggs
Principal Engineer at Cisco Systems
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Biggs is a Principal Engineer at Cisco’s Collaboration Technology Group with over two decades of experience designing, building, and operating core services for Webex Meetings and Teams. He specializes in architecting robust, secure, and scalable collaboration platforms across cloud and enterprise data centers, and holds five patents in collaboration and security. Prior to Cisco he cut his teeth at Bell Labs and Lockheed Martin, and his academic background spans mechanical and computer engineering at Colorado and Wisconsin. An active backend contributor to open-source (notably enhancements to FasterXML’s jackson-module-jsonSchema around JSON references and cyclic structures), he brings deep practical expertise in schema generation and resilient distributed systems. Based in Denver, he combines long-term product stewardship with hands-on engineering and a knack for simplifying complex, interdependent systems.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-MadisonBachelors Mechanical Engineering, Bachelors Mechanical Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder
Github Skills (8)
javas10
jackson10
json-schema10
java10
unit-testing9
data-structures8
data-structure8
algorithms7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
FasterXML/jackson-module-jsonSchema
Jun 2014 - Jun 2014
Module for generating JSON Schema (v3) definitions from POJOs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 6 days
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on implementing and refining features within the `fasterxml/jackson-module-jsonschema` repository, specifically related to generating JSON Schema definitions from Java objects. Their contributions included implementing JSON references, refactoring code, and adding tests for cyclic data structures such as lists, maps and multi-object cycles. The changes also included enhancements related to description fields and schema generation.
objectmappergsondefinitionsjacksonjson-schema
CiscoDevNet/api-design-guide
Jun 2017 - Dec 2018
Guidelines for designing REST APIs at Cisco
Contributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 6 months
apinapalmjuniperrestguidelines
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