Andrew Dowell
Senior Java Engineer at mkodo
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Dowell is a Senior Java Engineer with a PhD in Computer Science and around 15 years’ experience delivering cloud-native systems across gambling, finance, telecoms, insurance, media and public sectors. He combines hands-on coding—recently building Java 17 microservices, DynamoDB single-table caches and Kafka-based real-time platforms—with technical leadership roles that defined migration, disaster recovery and delivery vision for multi-client systems. Equally comfortable owning a keyboard or shaping delivery processes, he champions Agile and DevOps practices including TDD, automation, telemetry and cloud-managed services. His background spans both startup solo delivery—building webcrawlers, ML prototypes and AWS-hosted products—and enterprise architecture, where he led migration strategies for live Kafka estates and designed resilient data platforms. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, DDD- and SOLID-driven solutions and for turning proof-of-concept ideas into approved, production-ready designs. Based in Newcastle, he brings academic rigour to practical engineering, often surfacing improvements through lightweight experiments before wider adoption.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University of Liverpool
Github Skills (35)
instagram9
twitter9
css9
react9
cli8
immutability8
typesafe8
command-line8
explore8
pair-programming8
javascript8
twilio8
http-service7
tdd7
http-server7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
k0zakinio/rateflix
Jun 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:31 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
k0zakinio/vimrc
Mar 2016 - Oct 2018
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
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