Andrew Davidson
Senior Software Engineer at Drivetype
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndrew Davidson is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years' experience building backend systems and data-driven features across finance, media, and e-commerce. He has led technical decisions and delivered production services in Scala/Java, event-driven microservices, and real-time streaming (Kafka), most recently at Ocado Technology while also running his own company, Drivetype. Past roles include architecting data and recommendation solutions at UBS, Sky and Mendeley/Elsevier—where he shipped a dataset search engine that boosted page views and introduced ML to detect spam datasets. A First-Class Computer Science graduate from the University of Birmingham, he blends hands-on engineering with product-minded leadership and a knack for pragmatic innovation, often thriving in small cross-functional teams and stealth-mode projects.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Computer Science, First Class Honours, BSc (Hons), Computer Science, First Class Honours at The University of BirminghamYCombinator Startup SchoolQueen Elizabeth's School, Barnet
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Github Skills (62)
api10
rest-api10
mongodb10
aws-fargate9
webhooks9
graphql-api9
authentication9
aws-appsync9
lambda-functions9
amplify9
aws-lambda9
storage9
aws-amplify9
aws9
amplify-cli9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
sally-road-trips/sally-road-trips.github.io
Feb 2019 - Feb 2021
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
adav/MoHoLo-Stripe-Tickets
Oct 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:4 releases, 4 commits, 4 PRs in 3 months
herokustripesinatrarailsdeployment
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