Andrew Brown
Lead Software Engineer at Liine
Cary, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Brown is a Lead Software Engineer with 17 years of experience building full-stack systems, data platforms, and ML-enabled analytics products. He combines deep Python backend expertise (Django, FastAPI), Vue.js front-end work, and relational data modeling with practical ML, visualization, and Linux systems administration skills. He has led teams delivering cross-source ingestion, relation-building, and decision-support platforms that merge unstructured text (including LLM-based fact extraction) with structured data for actionable insights. His background includes datacenter and cluster operations at NCSU and hands-on work defending clients in software patent cases, reflecting a blend of research-minded engineering and pragmatic problem-solving. An active open-source contributor, he improved rendering performance for the widely used Minecraft Overviewer by adding multiprocessing and caching optimizations. Based in Cary, NC, he brings a steady mix of technical leadership, curious tinkering, and product-focused execution.
17 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Duke UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at North Carolina State University
Github Skills (9)
caching10
multi-process10
multiprocessing10
python-multiprocessing10
python10
algorithms8
data-structures8
algorithm8
data-structure8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
overviewer/Minecraft-Overviewer
Aug 2010 - Jan 2014
Render high-resolution maps of a Minecraft world with a Leaflet powered interface
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:439 commits in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Andrew's contributions focus on improving the rendering speed of the Minecraft Overviewer project by implementing multiprocessing. They optimized the chunk rendering process by using multiprocessing and caching chunks. They also added and modified functions related to chunk rendering including modifications to the existing files.
leafletminecraft
brownan/Gamecube-N64-Controller
Dec 2010 - Sep 2014
Connect a Gamecube controller to a Nintendo 64 using an Arduino
Contributions:13 commits, 4 comments, 1 issue in 3 years 9 months
arduinonintendo
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