Andrew Christianson
Founder at RA.Aid
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Christianson is a founder and veteran software engineer with 14 years building cloud-native, edge, and AI systems across startups and defense contractors. He created the open-source AI engineering agent RA.Aid (Apache 2.0) and is building AI startups Gobii and RA-Aid, reflecting a focus on practical AI tooling that augments developer capability. His background spans low-level C++ edge work, Kubernetes dataflows, and high-assurance distributed systems—experience that includes TS/SCI clearance-era architectures and production ML inference on constrained devices. Andrew combines hands-on implementation across Java, Go, Python and C++ with product-driven entrepreneurship, and he’s comfortable shipping both experimental open-source projects and mission-critical platforms. An unusual through-line in his career is repeatedly turning research-grade technologies into deployable engineering products, from embedded NiFi processors to goal-oriented automated planners.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Hood College
Github Skills (123)
ruby10
cpp10
apache-nifi10
linux10
ai10
apache10
java10
homebrew10
golang9
cli9
csv9
eclipse-che9
bitcoind9
bitcoin-wallet9
docker9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ai-christianson/RA.Aid
Dec 2024 - Apr 2025
Develop software autonomously.
Contributions:35 reviews, 71 PRs, 689 pushes in 3 months
agentsai
achristianson/nifi-minifi-cpp
Dec 2016 - Jul 2020
Mirror of Apache Nifi Minifi CPP
Contributions:422 pushes, 128 branches in 3 years 7 months
cppnifiapacheapache-nifijava
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