Andrew Hall
Principal Software Engineer at Valerian Technology
Glendale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Hall is a Principal Software Engineer with three decades of experience leading architecture, development, and teams across startups and large enterprises, currently focused on cloud-native systems and containerization. He has a track record of modernizing legacy Windows/.NET stacks to AWS container and serverless platforms, standardizing CI/CD and security (OAuth2) and driving migrations from TFS to GitHub. Equally comfortable in strategic leadership and hands-on implementation, he has built predictive healthcare platforms, real-time indexing engines, and scalable AI-driven cohort tools while founding OSS like Stateful. Known for planning long-term while shipping small, iterative wins, he blends domain-driven design and distributed architectures with pragmatic team-building and hiring. Based in Glendale, CA, he pairs deep JVM and cloud expertise (Java/Kotlin, Spring, AWS, Kubernetes) with practical experience across data, NLP, and high-throughput messaging systems.
11 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
University of SussexBachelor's of Science Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's of Science Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Tufts University
Github Skills (58)
databases10
java10
state-machine10
spring-boot10
data-science9
sql-query9
trino9
analytics9
spring9
indexing9
jdbc9
distributed-systems9
presto9
sql9
hive9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
developer-x/hapi-springboot-swagger-demo
Nov 2023 - Nov 2023
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 20 days
developer-x/trino
Apr 2024 - Apr 2024
Official repository of Trino, the distributed SQL query engine for big data, formerly known as PrestoSQL (https://trino.io)
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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