Andrew Cant
Senior Software Engineer at SugarCRM
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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SeniorAndrew Cant is a Senior Software Engineer based in Kitchener, Ontario, with 14 years of experience designing and delivering reliable software systems. He has deep domain expertise in billing, network traffic management, BSS/OSS and Linux networking, and has led and coordinated development across teams while working in agile environments. At SugarCRM he combines hands-on engineering with customer-focused project coordination, supervising teams and integrating open source solutions to meet business needs. He is pragmatic about quality, improving maintainability and test reliability in open-source projects like fakefs where he modernized deprecated APIs and fixed subtle test bugs. Andrew pairs a strong operational sense for networked systems with a knack for translating complex requirements into practical, auditable solutions. Colleagues would describe him as conscientious, collaborative, and consistently focused on shipping durable software.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (3)
testing10
ruby10
minitest9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
fakefs/fakefs
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
A fake filesystem. Use it in your tests.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 9 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on improving the codebase's quality and maintainability within the fakefs project. Their contributions included addressing deprecated features like `Encoding.default_external=` and `Fixnum`, replacing them with modern equivalents. They also corrected errors in test cases, ensuring accurate behavior, and maintained code consistency by standardizing Minitest class names. Furthermore, they corrected a bug in the `File.new` test, ensuring correct block execution.
testingfilesystem
sugarcrm/jquery-timeago-rails
Dec 2013 - May 2018
Contributions:20 commits, 10 pushes, 5 tags in 4 years 5 months
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