Andrew Canaday
Lead Architect at 84.51˚
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.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy at Marist College
Github Skills (62)
libev10
portable-library10
sshd10
beast10
monochrome10
io-uring10
freertos10
signaling10
libwebsockets10
networking10
proxy-protocol10
bidirectional10
libevent10
gfx10
embeddable10
Programming languages (7)
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
dronedeploymentdeployment-managerphase
andrew-canaday/libvmod-queryfilter
Jan 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:1 PR, 61 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
querystringvmodcachevarnish-cache
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