Andrew Drake
Staff Engineer at Front
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Drake is a Staff Engineer in San Francisco with 16 years of experience building infrastructure and systems software at Dropbox, Karmic Labs, and Front, where he has progressed from consultant to senior engineer to staff engineer. He specializes in reliability-focused engineering, devops, and systems programming, with early roots contributing to Firefox's JavaScript engine and high-reliability control software for industrial systems. Comfortable across startups and large engineering organizations, he combines low-level C/C++ experience with production-grade infrastructure design. Known for quietly improving operational resilience, he brings a pragmatic, long-term view to scaling distributed systems.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (156)
mojolicious10
grafana10
perl10
charts10
node-api10
network-interface10
helm10
autoscaling10
kubernetes10
bit10
mozilla10
aws10
javascript9
ecmascript9
terraform9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
frontapp/rust-mysql-simple
Oct 2022 - Nov 2023
Mysql client library implemented in rust.
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 1 month
mysqlrustclient-librarymysql-client
drakedevel/gsclient
Nov 2011 - Jun 2015
Contributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 3 years 7 months
command-line-toolcommand-linecli
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