Andrew Cretin
CTO at Good Spirit Kombucha
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Top SchoolAndrew Cretin is a technology leader and entrepreneur with eight years of hands-on software experience, currently serving as CTO of BudSense where he builds tools to simplify merchandising for retail cannabis through unified digital and print menus. He combines product-focused engineering with operational leadership as Vice President at Grassland Ventures and director of a small food-and-beverage brand, demonstrating a knack for turning niche market problems into scalable products. A former iOS developer and co-founder of a travel discovery startup, Andrew spans mobile to backend systems and remains active in open source—having contributed map-struct support and complexity-reducing refactors to the popular gofakeit library. Based in Regina, Saskatchewan, he pairs a dual background in computer science and business with a pragmatic, founder-oriented approach to shipping usable systems.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. in Computer Science with Business Area of Concentration Computer Science, B.Sc. in Computer Science with Business Area of Concentration Computer Science at University of ReginaHigh School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Weyburn Comprehensive School
Spanish, Swedish
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Github Skills (5)
data-generation10
go10
testing9
generator9
refactoring8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
brianvoe/gofakeit
Sep 2021 - Sep 2021
Random fake data generator written in go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 6 days
Contributions summary:Andrew focused on enhancing the `gofakeit` library by implementing support for map properties within structs. Their work included the addition of a new `rMap` function and refactoring existing functions to share code. They also addressed cognitive complexity and improved code readability by refactoring the `parseMapParams` function. The user's contributions were geared towards expanding the library's capabilities in generating more complex and realistic fake data.
golangfake-data-generatordatarandom-generationseed
mobilefirstdev/chrome
Jun 2021 - Oct 2023
Chrome as a service in docker. Run on our cloud, or bring your own
Contributions:9 PRs, 35 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 4 months
dockerchromeas-a-servicedocker-runchrome-extension
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