Andrew Brown
Staff Engineer at Wealthsimple
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Brown is a Staff Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating carrier-grade, cost-efficient infrastructure across fintech and e-commerce at Wealthsimple, Faire, and Shopify. He combines deep hands-on expertise in production engineering—particularly Kafka, Elasticsearch, and configuration management—with leadership in project delivery and operations. Known for designing zero-downtime cluster expansions and cross-datacenter synchronization, he balances reliability at 99.99% availability with pragmatic automation to reduce running costs. Based in Kitchener, Ontario, he has a background from BlackBerry through senior roles at Shopify and brings a systems-first perspective that bridges engineering, operations, and product needs.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Computer Science, B.Sc., Computer Science at Western UniversityDiploma, Network Engineering, Diploma, Network Engineering at trios College
English
Github Skills (190)
test-kitchen10
api-management10
operation10
bitnami10
terraform10
security10
consul10
automation10
infrastructure10
profiling10
ruby-client10
istio10
microservices10
service-mesh10
charts10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/cruise-control
Nov 2018 - Jan 2021
Cruise-control is the first of its kind to fully automate the dynamic workload rebalance and self-healing of a kafka cluster. It provides great value to Kafka users by simplifying the operation of Kafka clusters.
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 2 years 2 months
operationcruise-controlclusterskafka-clusterrebalance
andrewjamesbrown/chef
May 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
configurationdevopsconfiguration-managementansibleinfrastructure
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