Summary
Andrew Hanes is a software engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable cloud-native systems, currently contributing to observability and infrastructure at Datadog. He previously spent multiple years at Audible working on customer-facing features like Audible on Alexa, Whispersync for Voice, and a large-scale Oracle-to-AWS migration, giving him strong experience in distributed services and migration projects. Comfortable across backend systems, databases, and cloud platforms, he has a proven track record of shipping production features that touch both platform and consumer endpoints. Based in Boston, he brings academic roots in computer science from RIT and early hands-on mobile and instructional roles that sharpened his focus on practical engineering and mentorship. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic engineer who balances reliability and user impact, with a knack for navigating complex migrations and voice-enabled product integrations.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
Thomas Worthington High School