Andrew Eells
Founder at Backbone
Pemberton, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolAndrew Eells is a founder and seasoned platform engineer with 25 years of experience building production-grade distributed systems and cloud-native platforms, primarily AWS-first. He helps organisations skip the repeated reinvention of foundational capabilities—authentication, observability, pipelines, and operational controls—by providing an opinionated microservices foundation that accelerates time-to-production while preserving enterprise-grade discipline. Andrew has led transformation efforts across startups and regulated enterprises, delivering measurable delivery velocity and cost improvements (e.g., reducing build/deploy cycles from days or weeks to minutes). He combines hands-on architecture and implementation with strategic direction toward SOC2, GDPR and HIPAA-aligned readiness, making compliance a built-in property rather than an afterthought. Based in Pemberton, BC, he is focused on preventing instability through design rather than retroactive firefighting, enabling teams to scale without early platform overhead. An unusual strength is his track record of translating high-risk, legacy environments into repeatable, auditable cloud platforms that ship in weeks rather than months.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bishop Wordsworth's School2(i) BSc. Hons Physics, 2(i) BSc. Hons Physics at University of Bath
Stackoverflow
775reputation
55kreached
8answers
23questions
Github Skills (49)
docker8
golang7
webservice7
rest7
go7
jenkins6
maven6
jersey-client6
jetty6
jax-rs6
dropwizard6
aws-cloudformation6
serverless-framework6
aws6
bitbucket-server6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
101-Ways/pairing-test-devops
Feb 2018 - Aug 2018
Coding challenge on infrastructure scripting and devops practices.
Contributions:4 commits in 5 months
devopsscripting
get-forge/forge-kit
Jan 2026 - Jul 2026
Contributions:88 pushes, 6 branches, 34 tags in 5 months
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