Summary
Andrew Fake is a Senior Software Engineer in Boston with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, event-driven systems and architecting cross-team platforms. He has driven high-impact work at Wayfair—modernizing returns to process tens of millions in refunds in seconds, creating a vendor-agnostic address-validation solution that saved millions, and launching a Developer Portal to unify OpenAPI specs across dozens of microservices. As a co-founder of Anon Technology and now senior engineer at SurfaceAI, he blends startup agility with enterprise-grade architecture and cost-conscious operational practices. Comfortable across Python, .NET, Node.js and containerized Kubernetes environments, he’s known for turning legacy monoliths into decoupled services and mentoring engineers on architecture and best practices. A practical systems thinker, he often surfaces product-level savings opportunities from technical work and prioritizes developer experience alongside customer impact.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Regents, Advanced Regents at Queensbury Senior High School
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University at Buffalo
Spanish