Andrew Gustafson
Senior Software Developer at Atlassian
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Gustafson is a senior software developer with over 20 years in the industry and a strong focus on Scala—seven years commercially—who currently builds scalable services at Atlassian. He has driven feature-led initiatives like managed DynamoDB entity stores and led Batch and Query API deliveries, and previously architected microservices for streaming and identity platforms using event-sourcing, Kafka, http4s and functional Scala stacks. A proven team builder and coach, he headed the Scala guild at Beamly/zeebox, champions TDD and continuous deployment, and enjoys passing knowledge through talks and mentoring. He is an active open-source contributor to prominent Scala projects such as http4s, where he improved server metrics and fs2 integrations—showing a taste for low-level, correctness-focused refactors. Based in Sydney, he seeks collaborative, high-quality teams where he can keep contributing libraries and open-source while consistently delivering production value.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
UNSW Sydney
Chinese
Github Skills (7)
http10
http-server10
fs10
scala10
cat9
http-client9
testing8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
http4s/http4s
Jul 2016 - Dec 2018
A minimal, idiomatic Scala interface for HTTP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 11 PRs, 37 comments in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the `http4s` library by refactoring and updating existing code related to server metrics and chunk aggregation. The commits involved updating server-side metrics to use `fs2` and refactoring code using `flatMap`. They also addressed issues with chunk aggregation, removing the chunked transfer encoding header and updating tests. The user also made contributions to documentation examples and test files related to fs2.
idiomatichttp-clientscalafs2typelevel
ITV/quartz4s
May 2020 - Nov 2021
Quarts scheduler library based on cats-effect
Contributions:3 reviews, 147 commits, 80 PRs in 1 year 6 months
scheduler-libraryschedulercats-effect
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