Andrew Garrett
Engineering Manager at Reddit, Inc.
Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Garrett is an engineering manager with nine years of experience building and leading backend and full-stack teams across startups and scale-stage companies, currently managing engineering at Reddit. He specializes in event-driven architectures, stream processing, and high-throughput distributed systems, having co-architected notification pipelines processing >15k notifications/sec and led teams that reduced wasted push sends by 15% at scale. Andrew combines hands-on technical leadership—from founding a Kafka Guild and building an internal Kafka Go client to designing CDC and Airflow data pipelines—with people management, hiring, and mentorship that grow engineers across career levels. He has a track record of translating product vision into roadmaps and pragmatic architectures that enable rapid iteration (cutting development cycles for notifications from four weeks to one). Based in Virginia, he pairs an MIM from University of Maryland with deep cross-functional experience in ML-driven products and notification UX, often surfacing opportunities to unlock incremental DAU through data-informed feature design.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Information Management, Master of Information Management at University of MarylandBachelor's degree Mathematical Economics, Bachelor's degree Mathematical Economics at Colgate University
Github Skills (44)
kafka-producer10
kafka10
librdkafka10
apache10
ruby-client10
producer10
apache-kafka10
c-library10
high-performance10
cpp10
deprecated10
kafka-consumer10
sink9
proxy9
client-library9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
contactually/airflow-plugins
Aug 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:78 commits, 68 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
UrbanCompass/librdkafka
Jul 2021 - Apr 2022
The Apache Kafka C/C++ library
Contributions:2 releases, 17 reviews, 15 commits in 9 months
apache-kafkacppc-libraryapachekafka
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