Andrew Cruickshank
Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Dublin, Dublin 1, Ireland
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Top SchoolAndrew Cruickshank is a Principal Engineering Manager based in Dublin with nearly 30 years of software development experience and 11 years in senior engineering leadership roles at Microsoft. He has deep expertise in large-scale, high-security distributed systems, cloud platforms (Azure, AWS), DevOps automation, and both backend and frontend stacks from COBOL/mainframe roots to modern TypeScript and Spring Boot services. Known for strong documentation, communication, and organization, he consistently owns end-to-end delivery of complex systems and builds reliable CI/CD and observability pipelines. His background spans payments, enterprise automation, and infrastructure as code, with hands-on experience across Service Fabric, Terraform, Ansible, and Azure DevOps. Colleague-focused and curious, he blends technical depth with program-level leadership to drive predictable, auditable outcomes. A civil engineering graduate turned longtime software professional, he brings a systems-thinking mindset shaped by decades of evolving technologies.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
BSc(Eng) Civil Engineering, BSc(Eng) Civil Engineering at University of the WitwatersrandBachelor of Arts (Hons) Humanities, Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Humanities at Dublin City University
English, Afrikaans
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
pluralsight10
administrator8
snmp8
foundation8
linux7
fail2ban7
jenkins6
oracle6
logstash6
entity-framework6
sql6
git6
insert6
xslt6
puppet5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
digitalbear/weewx.backup
Feb 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:15 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
digitalbear/ansible.weewx
May 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:13 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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