Andrew Cotton
Staff Software Engineer, Back End at Flock Freight
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Cotton is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building back-end systems and optimizing distributed applications, currently driving efficiency and sustainability at Flock Freight. He blends deep Java and cloud-native expertise—Spring, Quarkus, AWS Lambdas, Redis, MySQL—with hands-on DevOps and architecture work across greenfield and legacy migrations. His background in linguistics and language instruction gives him a rare sensitivity for building clear interfaces and integrations, especially for event-driven services and multilingual or cross-cultural products. He has led performance and testing initiatives, introduced CI/CD migrations, and implemented caching and messaging strategies that improved reliability and scalability. Based in San Diego, he is equally comfortable in code-level problem solving and cross-team collaboration, often surfacing practical developer tools and processes that reduce friction. Outside engineering, his language training and international teaching experience inform a people-first approach to mentorship and product design.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Spanish Language and Literature, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Spanish Language and Literature at University of North Carolina at WilmingtonSpanish Language and Literature, Spanish Language and Literature at Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
Spanish, Korean, English
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Github Skills (62)
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javascript7
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php6
edtech6
symfony6
sqlalchemy6
spring-boot6
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Syleron/426c
Jan 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:2 commits in 3 months
cottonaf/yii-dbeanstalkd
May 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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