Andrew Hess
Backend Software Engineer at SigScalr
Helena, Montana, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Hess is a backend software engineer with nine years of experience building high-performance systems, currently enhancing SigScalr’s observability database. He has a strong systems background—writing a Linux kernel module for fast page activity tracking and using SIMD-optimized C to double log parsing throughput at AWS—and prefers languages like Rust for safe, performant code. A Caltech CS graduate who briefly stepped away to pursue solo projects, he excels at thoughtful design before implementation and juggling multiple tasks to unblock progress. He gravitates toward work that measurably improves others’ workflows and avoids large, hard-to-reason-about Python codebases and slow review processes.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
California Institute of Technology
Stackoverflow
972reputation
27kreached
37answers
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Github Skills (44)
monitoring10
observability10
distributed-tracing10
splunk10
newrelic10
go10
opentelemetry10
logging10
eagle9
plover8
filter8
scripting7
desktop-application7
neovim7
lua7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
AndrewHess/siglens
Oct 2023 - Apr 2025
OpenSource Observability at 100x Efficiency
Contributions:14 PRs, 334 pushes, 507 branches in 1 year 5 months
siglens/siglens-docs
Nov 2023 - Feb 2025
Documentation repo for SigLens
Contributions:127 reviews, 57 PRs, 46 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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