Andrew Drane
Senior Software Engineer II at Crayon.co
Watertown, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Drane is a senior software engineer with 17 years building and scaling web applications across startups and growth-stage companies. He blends hands-on full‑stack engineering (Python/Django, React, PHP, Ruby on Rails) with product and team leadership, having taken early-stage products to hundreds of thousands of users and helped grow teams at Crayon, Placester, NetProspex/D&B and BetterLesson. He’s experienced in high‑scale data problems—tracking hundreds of millions of pages, integrating SQL and NoSQL stores, and designing cloud architectures on AWS. Andrew pairs pragmatic engineering with mentoring and hiring experience, having managed on‑site and offshore teams and coached developers into leadership roles. A longtime community organizer (BostonPHP) and founder (Cook’s Compass), he brings entrepreneurial instincts and a knack for turning domain knowledge into user‑facing features. Based in Watertown, MA, he thrives in startup environments where product, data and infrastructure intersect.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Wesleyan UniversityHarvard Extension School
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Github Skills (5)
cakephp2
mustache2
php1
slate1
templating1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
andrewdrane/bookmarker
Mar 2009 - Apr 2011
Contributions:26 commits in 2 years 1 month
andrewdrane/ssorm
Mar 2009 - Mar 2009
Contributions:9 commits in 2 days
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