Andrew Flower
Software Engineer II at Indeed.com
Yokohama, Japan
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Top SchoolAndrew Flower is a Software Engineer II with 15 years of experience building cloud-native services and APIs, currently focused on system design, automation, and high-quality code at Indeed in Yokohama. He combines deep systems and C++/graphics roots—his honours thesis on real-time deformable terrain was published—with production experience at AWS EC2, Rakuten, and Indeed, giving him a strong practical grasp of cloud APIs, containers, and distributed data flows. Technically versatile, he’s shipped services using Java/Spring Boot, Ruby on Rails, Python, Redis, MySQL-like databases, Docker and CI tooling like Jenkins, and he brings hands-on familiarity with EC2 internals. As a former team lead and application architect, he pairs engineering leadership with a preference for pragmatic processes that enable rather than constrain developers. Outside work he experiments with IoT on Raspberry Pi and retains a fascination for GPU and simulation problems, often leveraging that background to solve performance-sensitive backend challenges.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bacher of Science (Honours), Computer Science, Bacher of Science (Honours), Computer Science at University of Cape TownRondebosch Boys' High SchoolPinehurst Primary School
English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (105)
statsd10
instrumentation10
graphite10
angular10
open-telemetry-java10
counter10
spring-boot10
nodejs10
spring10
zipkin10
daemon10
javascript9
django9
spring-mvc9
python9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
rewolf/blog-spring-and-react-2-data-apis
Aug 2019 - May 2021
Example of how to get a React frontend to communicate with a Spring Boot backend
Contributions:17 commits, 4 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 10 months
backendfrontendreactspringspring-boot
rewolf/blog-hmac-auth-webclient
May 2020 - Feb 2021
Example of how to do HMAC-based Auth with Spring's WebClient
Contributions:1 review, 10 commits, 1 PR in 9 months
authhmac
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