Andrew Glover is a seasoned technology executive and hands-on engineer with 15+ years building developer productivity, continuous delivery, and cloud-native infrastructure at companies from startups to Netflix and OpenAI. He founded multiple companies including Vanward and Beacon50, led Stelligent through acquisition and rebrand, and most recently served as CTO of ReadySet where he built an automatic, application-transparent SQL caching system. At Netflix he ran Delivery and Productivity Engineering, operating and evolving Spinnaker (including contributions to orchestration and AWS auto-scaling tasks) to power large-scale CI/CD across heterogeneous runtimes. A prolific open-source author and Jolt Award-winning co-author, he blends deep practical coding (backend, DevOps, full-stack) with strategic leadership in areas like mobile, cloud, big data, and behavior-driven development. Based in San Jose, he’s known for turning developer tooling and processes into measurable productivity gains while still enjoying writing code and shipping tests.
15 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at George Mason University
[Asgard is deprecated at Netflix. We use Spinnaker ( www.spinnaker.io ).] Web interface for application deployments and cloud management in Amazon Web Services (AWS). Binary download: http://github.com/Netflix/asgard/releases
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:60 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to adding and updating instance types within the Asgard application, a web interface for application deployments and cloud management on AWS. They implemented support for new instance types like I2, C3, and R3 series, which required modifications to the instance type service and related tests. Furthermore, the user updated dependencies to the AWS SDK and made changes to the AutoScalingController, ensuring correct instance type handling and integration.
Contributions summary:Andrew's commits primarily focused on developing and testing backend components for the `front50` service. They updated the project to use Vagrant and Docker, suggesting an emphasis on local development and infrastructure setup. The user also worked on setting up DAO and testing implementations, indicating involvement in data access layers and testing frameworks. Furthermore, the user contributed to the controller tests, and implemented create/update/delete functionality, demonstrating full-stack capabilities.
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