Andrew French
Founding Engineer at xFigura
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew French is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native systems and backend tooling, currently at Griptape via Foundry in Seattle. He specializes in Go and Python and has a background in electrical engineering from the Colorado School of Mines, which informs a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to software design. His career spans startups and large teams—Amazon Alexa, Skipify, and deep involvement with DDEV—where he improved containerized developer workflows and added features like sudo-in-container command execution and robust project file handling. Comfortable across DevOps, embedded, and cloud domains, he brings both hands-on implementation skills and a focus on developer experience. Colleagues describe him as the kind of engineer who finds elegant, low-friction fixes that meaningfully improve stability and usability.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering at Colorado School of Mines
Github Skills (12)
docker10
docker-compose10
go10
devops10
dockers10
yaml9
php9
linux9
drupal8
command-line-interface8
typo38
wordpress7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ddev/ddev
May 2018 - Feb 2019
Docker-based local PHP+Node.js web development environments
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 releases, 67 commits, 115 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the ddev project by enhancing its backend functionality and improving its overall usability. Their work involved modifying the core logic for file and directory management related to local development environments, including the integration of TYPO3 and Drupal settings, and updating the configuration process. Furthermore, they implemented features such as the ability to run commands with sudo privileges within the container and improved the handling of project file removals, demonstrating expertise in DevOps and containerization. Their contributions led to the enhancement of the user experience and system stability within the ddev environment.
dockerweb-developmentdrupalwordpressmacos
andrewfrench/ddev
May 2018 - Jan 2020
DDEV-Local: a local PHP development environment system
Contributions:7 releases, 2 PRs, 292 pushes in 1 year 7 months
xdebugphpddevdevelopment-environmentcomposer
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