Andrew Danks
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Affirm
Incline Village, Nevada, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Danks is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building large-scale data and location systems, currently leading infrastructure work at Affirm. He has deep experience in real-time stream processing (Flink/Kafka), Spark-based ML pipelines, and high-throughput caching that reduced Yelp DB load by tens of thousands of QPS. His work spans data ingestion, geospatial ML (visit classification, chain detection, location quality), and production reliability—balancing model iteration speed with safe, observable rollouts. Based in Incline Village, NV, he blends research roots from the University of Toronto with practical product impact and a pattern of improving throughput and precision in mission-critical systems.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Hon. B.Sc, Computer Science, Hon. B.Sc, Computer Science at University of Toronto
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Github Skills (19)
ini6
php6
scikit-learn6
htaccess6
machine-learning6
emr4
batch4
python3
apache3
spark3
luigi3
hadoop2
big-data2
apache-airflow2
visualization2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
andrewdanks/JuliaNet
Jul 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:51 commits, 24 pushes, 9 branches in 28 days
clementsainsRobotics/Speech-Recognition-1
Apr 2012 - Apr 2012
Contributions:14 commits in 8 days
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