Andrew Fister
Principal Engineer at GridX, Inc.
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Fister is a Principal Engineer with 16 years of experience building and operating production systems across startups and research labs, currently maintaining system-level oversight at GridX. He has a strong full-stack background—Java, JavaScript, Python—and deep AWS deployment experience from roles at Genability and Arcadia, plus hands-on work integrating with third-party APIs and POS systems. Andrew’s career blends product-facing feature work (Android clients and restaurant integrations) with backend infrastructure, database management (MySQL, Redis, MSSQL) and deployment automation. He pairs formal training in computer science and linguistics with research internships that produced language-processing tools, reflecting a practical curiosity about data and text. Known for moving between hands-on implementation and higher-level architecture, he’s comfortable translating customer needs into scalable technical solutions. Based in Silver Spring, MD, he brings both startup agility and multi-year experience running critical services in production.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science and Linguistics, BS Computer Science and Linguistics at University of MarylandMA Linguistics, MA Linguistics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Spanish, Arabic, Japanese
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Github Skills (25)
orb6
api6
desktop5
java5
linux5
java-client5
client-library5
electron4
maven4
owncloud4
sdk3
js3
phantomjs3
javascript3
simplify3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
andrewfister/personal-website
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 21 days
Genability/maven-orb
Feb 2022 - Feb 2022
Simplify common tasks for building and testing Java projects using Maven on CircleCI.
Contributions:4 PRs, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
mavenjava-testingtestingcirclecijava-projects
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