Andrew Finkenstadt
Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering at Google
O’Fallon, Missouri, United States
Summary
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SeniorAndrew Finkenstadt is a Staff Software Engineer in Site Reliability Engineering at Google with over three decades of systems and software experience and eleven years in his current senior-level trajectory. He specializes in architecting massively multiplayer server/client systems and high-speed services, with deep expertise in database design, communication protocols, security, and PCI DSS-compliant billing. Andrew has driven cross-disciplinary technical leadership at companies from Zynga and Citadel to HeroEngine and contributed backend improvements to well-known open-source tooling like Splunk's Java logging library. He consistently takes ownership from specifications through implementation, engaging partner teams to deliver sensible, maintainable solutions for complex distributed systems. Based in O’Fallon, Missouri, he combines production-grade reliability work with a game-industry sensibility for scale and real-time performance. An unexpected detail: beyond code and systems, he’s known to "also walk dogs," signaling a pragmatic, down-to-earth approach to engineering and teamwork.
11 years of coding experience
35 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
splunk10
javas10
logging10
log4j10
logback10
java10
testing10
apidoc9
api9
syntaxerror9
http6
exceptions6
stl6
compiler-errors6
visual-studio6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
splunk/splunk-library-javalogging
Mar 2016 - Oct 2016
Splunk logging appenders for popular Java Logging frameworks
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 8 PRs, 17 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to implementing features related to host, exception, and marker support within the Splunk logging appenders. They modified existing appender classes and the core sender to incorporate these new metadata fields, enhancing the logging capabilities. Furthermore, the user added new properties to the event collector information and updated existing tests to include and validate the changes. They also fixed a copy/paste error and removed unused imports, improving code maintainability.
appendersloggerloggingsplunkslf4j
afinkenstadt/splunk-library-javalogging
Mar 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:7 pushes, 6 branches in 6 months
appendersloggerloggingsplunkjava-logging
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