Andrew Gross
Staff AI Engineer at YipitData
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Gross is a Staff AI Engineer based in New York with 14 years of experience building data-driven systems and leading engineering teams at YipitData. He progressed from senior developer to Director of Engineering and now focuses on applying AI and scalable infrastructure to extract actionable insights from large, messy datasets used by institutional investors. Hands-on across back-end systems and testing, he has contributed to open-source tooling that simulates AWS infrastructure (moto), adding block device mapping and robust test coverage. His Cornell engineering physics background underpins a pragmatic, analytical approach to complex production problems. Colleagues describe him as a technical leader who balances strategic roadmap work with code-level contributions and mentorship. He brings uncommon depth in turning data engineering challenges into reliable, production-grade ML and analytics products.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Engineering Physics/Applied Physics, Bachelor’s Degree, Engineering Physics/Applied Physics at Cornell University
Github Skills (6)
ec10
amazon-ec210
boto10
aws10
python10
testing9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
getmoto/moto
Feb 2014 - Sep 2016
A library that allows you to easily mock out tests based on AWS infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on implementing and modifying features related to block device mapping within the `moto` project, which simulates AWS infrastructure. Their contributions involved changes to the `autoscaling` and `ec2` modules, adding support for block device configurations. They also enhanced the tests to cover the new functionality, along with fixing merge issues. These changes involved adding features to the launch configuration backend.
awsbotoec2s3
schubergphilis/vagrant-chef-zero
Jun 2013 - Apr 2015
Vagrant Plugin for Chef Zero
Contributions:103 commits, 3 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 10 months
vagrant-plugin
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