Andrew Edstrom
Member Of Technical Staff at Anthropic
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Edstrom is a pragmatic technical lead and Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic with 11 years of engineering experience building secure, observable, and containerized systems. He has led security-focused teams and large migrations at Pivotal, contributed to notable open-source projects like Concourse and CloudFoundry UAA, and has a track record of improving CI/CD, monitoring, and test performance. As a founder he shipped a SaaS product for serializing classic literature, and as an independent consultant he taught TDD in legacy codebases and helped teams cut tedious tasks by 75%. Based in Denver, he’s actively seeking remote roles in AI Safety and combines hands-on backend systems work in Go with product-minded process improvements and measurable user-facing impact.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Japanese, Spanish
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Github Skills (20)
container10
testing10
cicd10
java10
javas10
go10
log4j10
pipeline10
spring-boot10
oauth10
continuous-integration9
continuous-delivery9
openid-connect9
databases9
database9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/uaa
Mar 2019 - Feb 2020
CloudFoundry User Account and Authentication (UAA) Server
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 244 commits, 120 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Andrew focused on upgrading dependencies and refactoring code related to the CloudFoundry User Account and Authentication (UAA) Server. Their contributions included upgrading statsd to use log4j2 and Spring Boot 2. They also made assertions on what's important within the codebase and performed miscellaneous cleanup tasks, such as renaming variables for clarity, autoformatting, and removing whitespace.
openid-connectuaaoidcaccountauthentication
concourse/concourse
May 2017 - Mar 2018
Concourse is a container-based continuous thing-doer written in Go.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:73 commits, 1 PR, 18 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Andrew's commits primarily involve modifying the Concourse CI/CD system. They've worked on improving container tests, specifically related to hijacking and garbage collection within the system. Furthermore, the user contributed to emitting metrics for worker volumes, suggesting a focus on monitoring and observability. The user's work also included migrating versioned resource functions to dbng, demonstrating a contribution to internal system improvements.
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