Summary
Andrew Epstein is a software engineer with 12 years of experience building reliable, high-throughput systems across finance, healthcare, and publishing. He has led teams and architected event-driven microservice platforms (Kafka, Kong, Keycloak, Snowflake) at Elsevier, sped up production pipelines and implemented FDA-regulated lab automation at Freenome, and is now applying his expertise at SIG. Known for pragmatic performance work—10x ingestion speed-ups and ~20% pipeline runtime reductions—he pairs hands-on optimization with production monitoring and runbooks to make systems maintainable. A former small-business founder and long-standing technical operator, he brings both customer-facing curiosity and disciplined engineering practices rooted in AI-focused computer science training.
12 years of coding experience