Andrew Gold
Strategic Cloud Engineer
Allen, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Gold is a Strategic Cloud Engineer with 7+ years focused on helping enterprises accelerate migrations and modernize infrastructure on Google Cloud, backed by an uncommon breadth of Google Cloud certifications across architecture, ML, security, DevOps, networking and development. He brings deep systems-level expertise from decades of hands-on work in Unix/Linux, virtualization, OpenStack, container platforms and networked, concurrent systems, having held senior engineering and architecture roles at Google, Oracle, Red Hat and others. Andrew pairs strong software engineering (C/C++, Python, Perl) with infrastructure automation (Ansible, Kubernetes, GKE) and a track record of operationalizing scalable services and CI/CD practices. He’s comfortable moving between low-level performance tuning (SR-IOV/DPDK, memory debugging) and high-level cloud design (GCS, BigQuery, load balancing), which makes him effective at both migration strategy and implementation. Based in Allen, Texas, he combines enterprise consulting experience with practical tooling and automation skills, and historically has been the go-to engineer for complex porting, packaging and system modernization projects. An atypical detail: he holds a now-obsolete Red Hat Ansible specialist credential, reflecting long-term, early involvement in automation tooling.
7 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of Nevada, Reno
Github Skills (24)
data-stream10
google-cloud-platform10
bigquery10
stackdriver10
dataflow10
google-cloud-dataflow10
sqf10
data-loss-prevention10
spanner10
bigtable10
gcp10
google10
google-cloud10
google-cloud-ml10
confluent-cloud5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
agold-rh/professional-services-fp
Sep 2022 - Oct 2023
Common solutions and tools developed by Google Cloud's Professional Services team
Contributions:2 reviews, 8 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 year 1 month
gcpprofessionalgooglegoogle-cloud-platformprofessional-services
mwatney-mars/professional-services
Oct 2023 - May 2024
Common solutions and tools developed by Google Cloud's Professional Services team. This repository and its contents are not an officially supported Google product.
Contributions:2 pushes in 7 months
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