Andrew Elble
Infrastructure Engineer, Communications Technical Lead
City of Rochester, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Elble is an experienced infrastructure engineer and communications technical lead with over 11 years in IT and a career in university communication systems stretching back to the mid-1990s. Based in Rochester, NY, he combines deep operational expertise with hands-on development and test automation—contributing bug fixes and performance optimizations to the notable open-source Spack package manager. Comfortable working across databases, locking semantics, and tooling that accelerates software deployment, he focuses on making systems both reliable and efficient. His electrical engineering background and long tenure in higher education IT give him a practical, systems-oriented perspective and a knack for solving thorny integration and performance problems behind the scenes.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
AAS, Engineering Science, AAS, Engineering Science at SUNY Broome Community CollegeBS, Electrical Engineering, BS, Electrical Engineering at University at Buffalo
Github Skills (20)
concurrent10
package-management10
python10
nfs10
testing10
c1110
c1710
kernel10
package-manager-tool10
kernel-mode10
package-manager10
concurrency10
system-programming9
filesystem9
linux-kernel9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
spack/spack
Jan 2020 - Dec 2022
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:144 reviews, 170 commits, 223 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on debugging and testing functionality related to hash-based references to upstream specifications within the Spack package manager. Their contributions included identifying and fixing a bug in the database functions, which were inappropriately acquiring locks on upstream databases. This involved updating code to avoid database locking and creating new tests to catch potential regression errors. Additionally, the user made changes to optimize the "spack load" command, resulting in significant performance improvements.
compilerspythonradiussplatformslinux
aweits/spack
Jan 2020 - Oct 2024
Contributions:294 pushes, 361 branches in 4 years 10 months
compilersplatformspackage-managerdarwinconfigurations
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