Andrew Helsby
Global Lead Engineer (Assistant Vice President) - Digital Squad Web & Mobile at Mashreq
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolAndrew Helsby is a Global Lead Engineer and hands-on technical leader with over a decade of consulting and contract experience delivering cloud-native systems across fintech, transport, gaming and sports. He combines eight years of lead-developer experience with deep full-stack and cloud expertise—Java, Python, Scala, Node, C#, C++—and a strong DevOps/Cloud architecture background driving CI/CD and Terraform-led infrastructure. Based in Dubai, he has repeatedly reduced costs and improved resilience for clients (notably halving AWS spend for an automotive app) while building data pipelines, payment systems and large-scale microservice platforms. A UCL-trained physicist, he brings analytical rigor to pragmatic engineering, comfortable switching between hands-on coding and strategic platform design across onshore and offshore teams.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Dubai CollegeUniversity College London
English
Github Skills (53)
docker10
continuous-integration10
python10
cd10
feature-flags10
flagsmith10
remote-control10
multivariate-testing10
sdk10
remote-config10
feature-management10
react10
java9
ab-testing9
devops9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
open-feature/python-sdk
May 2022 - Nov 2022
Python SDK for OpenFeature
Contributions:70 reviews, 36 commits, 42 PRs in 6 months
sdk-pythonopenfeaturepythonsdk
Pattern-Patrol/pattern-patrol-maven-plugin
Feb 2025 - Mar 2025
Open source project that helps developers ensure project structures are followed
Contributions:12 releases, 69 PRs, 85 pushes in 1 month
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