Andrew Blaney
Founding Engineer at Semaloop
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Blaney is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with eight years of hands-on experience building production services using TypeScript/Node.js, AWS, CI/CD and DevOps practices. He currently ships backend systems at Plain after progressing through multiple engineering roles at the BBC, where he moved from software engineer to senior engineer and honed skills in scalable, reliable delivery for high-traffic environments. Comfortable across the full lifecycle from development to deployment, he focuses on automating pipelines and operational resilience to reduce toil and accelerate iteration. His background in geography gives him a systems-oriented perspective on complex problems and a knack for translating ambiguous requirements into pragmatic technical solutions. Though not a prolific public GitHub contributor, he brings steady, production-facing craft and a track record of sustained impact in regulated and customer-facing contexts.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Geography, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Geography at Sheffield Hallam
English
Github Skills (30)
backend9
php8
amazon7
nodejs7
laravel7
dynamodb7
polling7
serverless7
boilerplate6
queue6
aws-lambda6
fluent-interface5
aws5
inbound5
message-queue5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bbc/summa-transcriber
Apr 2018 - Aug 2018
✍️ SUMMA video file transcriber
Contributions:230 pushes, 16 branches, 3 tags in 3 months
summatranscribervideo
team-plain/cli
Oct 2024 - Jul 2025
CLI for interacting with Plain API
Contributions:8 reviews, 20 PRs, 24 pushes in 9 months
cli
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