Andrew Canaday
City of Beacon, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Canaday is a Lead Architect with two decades of software and cloud infrastructure experience and over a decade of focused professional engineering work, most recently leading architecture at 84.51˚ after a long tenure as a Staff Software Engineer at The New York Times. He excels at reconciling competing product, technical, and financial constraints, treating “intractable” problems as opportunities for creative, pragmatic solutions. A quick study and enthusiastic teacher, he enjoys mentoring teams and turning complex requirements into reliable, scalable systems. His background spans automation, embedded-adjacent work, application architecture, and cloud-native platforms, informed by degrees in both philosophy and mathematics. Based in Beacon, New York, he balances intense technical focus with creative hobbies—writing music and building effects units and amplifiers—that often inspire unconventional engineering insights. He’s currently exploring new projects and personal work while applying his knack for making seemingly opposing goals complementary.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy at Marist University
Github Skills (33)
portable-library10
libev10
sshd10
freertos10
libwebsockets10
networking10
libevent10
embeddable10
querystring10
libuv10
varnish10
client-server10
arduino-library10
c-library10
templating9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
nytimes/drone-gdm
Aug 2017 - Aug 2020
Drone.io plugin to facilitate the use of Google Deployment Manager in drone deploy phase.
Contributions:2 PRs, 69 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years
google-deployment-manager
andrew-canaday/fast_tolower
Apr 2015 - Jul 2021
Contributions:27 commits, 22 pushes, 6 branches in 6 years 4 months
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