Andrew Godwin
Engineering Manager Senior Staff Engineer at Lambda
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Godwin is an engineering manager and backend systems leader with 17 years of experience building and operating large-scale, production-critical infrastructure and developer platforms. He combines hands-on Python and Django expertise—demonstrated by deep contributions to Django, ASGI/asgiref, Daphne and Channels—with pragmatic engineering leadership that drives cost reductions, zero-downtime rewrites, and improved SRE and developer experience. At companies from Eventbrite to Robinhood and Astronomer he has led architecture, scheduler and multi-tenant initiatives, and at Astronomer delivered a feature that cut customer Airflow costs by up to 95%. Known for empathetic, product-oriented team leadership, he also maintains a prolific open-source presence and enjoys public speaking on technical topics and engineering sustainability. Based in Denver with an Oxford Computer Science degree, he pairs academic rigor with a long history of shipping resilient distributed systems.
17 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science at University of Oxford
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Github Skills (51)
realtime10
back-end-development10
python10
redis10
django10
testing10
http10
channel10
websocket10
asyncio10
activitypub10
real-time-data10
websockets-client10
asgi10
backend10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
jointakahe/takahe
Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
An ActivityPub/Fediverse server
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:372 reviews, 532 commits, 348 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the backend of the ActivityPub/Fediverse server, adding core features for identity management and federation. This included implementing fetching and parsing of actor data, styling profile pages, and adding the core infrastructure for handling actions. The user focused on building the underlying structure for interaction, the setup of data structures and models and the basic implementation of posting and federation.
activitypub
django/channels_redis
Jan 2016 - Jan 2019
Redis channel layer backend for Django Channels
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:132 commits, 36 PRs, 150 pushes in 3 years
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the `asgi_redis` project by implementing and refining features related to the Redis backend for Django Channels. Their work included fixing Python 3 compatibility issues, improving non-blocking receive operations, and adding encryption support. They also focused on performance enhancements such as using Lua scripts and refactoring existing code to improve the channel layer's functionality. Finally, the user released multiple versions of the project and updated dependencies.
backenddjango-channelsredis
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