Andrew Buchanan
Principal Engineer at Justworks
West Pikeland Township, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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SeniorAndrew Buchanan is a Principal Engineer with over two decades of hands-on and leadership experience building large-scale web and mobile products and transforming delivery organizations. He has led engineering functions at consumer-scale properties and APIs (including a high-traffic search engine and top-ranked mobile apps) and more recently drives platform and delivery improvements at Justworks. Known for applying Lean Enterprise and continuous delivery practices, he has coached executives and piloted long-lived, multi-discipline product teams to accelerate time-to-value and reduce regulatory and operational risk. His career blends startup founding and executive CTO/CIO roles with senior technical leadership at firms like Thoughtworks and Hibu, giving him rare perspective across strategy, architecture, and execution. Based in West Pikeland Township, PA, he frequently bridges business metrics and statistical experimentation with practical engineering decisions. He brings a pragmatic, can-do culture to teams and a track record of turning monoliths into maintainable, outcome-focused architectures.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (131)
json-data10
python10
webextension10
mqtt10
swift10
home-automation10
iot10
ingress10
internet-of-things10
asyncio10
aws10
raspberry-pi10
safari9
firefox9
cli9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
abuchanan920/REST-API-Reference-Architecture
Apr 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:119 commits in 3 months
abuchanan920/historybook
Jan 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:29 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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