Summary
Andrew Brower is a Staff Engineer with 12 years of experience building reliable infrastructure and backend systems, currently shaping platform-scale work at Reddit. His background spans founding-stage engineering at Reploy to infrastructure roles at Front and production-focused software at companies like Human Interest and Pushbullet, where he maintained a Windows desktop app with 100k+ active installs. Comfortable across systems administration, HPC clusters, and cloud-native backends, he brings practical experience from managing large lab environments and monitoring stacks to shipping resilient services. Andrew publishes technical writing and projects at monofuel.dev and maintains active GitHub and GitLab profiles, reflecting a habit of documenting lessons learned. Based in Middleville, Michigan, he combines startup agility with enterprise rigor and a hands-on approach to performance and observability. A less obvious strength is his long-running ownership of operational tooling and monitoring—skills forged running university HPC and lab infrastructure that inform his production reliability work.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science: Theory and Analysis, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science: Theory and Analysis at College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Western Michigan University