Andrew Dranse
Staff Data Engineer
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Dranse is a Staff Data Engineer based in Edmonton with two decades of backend and data platform experience and a track record of translating ambiguous business goals into durable systems used by millions. He has repeatedly owned architecture and reliability across analytics, ingestion, and core platform services—rebuilding DBT/Snowflake pipelines and designing scalable ingestion for millions of artifacts. Comfortable leading by influence, he mentors senior engineers and sets cross-team technical standards while remaining hands-on in implementation and operations. His background spans startups to Amazon-scale streaming systems, giving him a pragmatic blend of performance optimization, data quality restoration, and operational rigor. Anecdotally, he combines deep C++ systems experience from early career work with recent cloud-native data engineering practices, enabling him to bridge low-level performance thinking with modern analytics platforms.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Mathematics, Computer Science, Bachelor of Mathematics, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English
Github Skills (3)
eclipse-plugin9
sonatype9
eclipse8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ajdranse/adventOfCode
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:25 commits, 156 pushes in 1 year
ajdranse/Adv360-Pro-ZMK
Dec 2024 - Feb 2025
Production repository for the all-new Advantage360 Professional using ZMK engine
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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