Andrew Horwitz
Software Data Engineer
Taiwan
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolAndrew Horwitz is a software data engineer with 12 years of experience building robust data platforms and integrations across healthcare, academia, and media. He designs and implements Snowflake/DBT warehouses and end-to-end ETL orchestration (ADF, Azure Functions, NiFi) while integrating CI/CD, business signoff, and PowerBI/QuickSight reporting for stakeholder-ready analytics. Comfortable as a roving senior engineer, he has migrated BigQuery/dbt/Looker stacks to AWS, prototyped LLM-driven developer tooling, and significantly reduced legacy code bloat at scale. An active open-source contributor to the Verovio music-engraving project, he brings a rare blend of music-technology insight (McGill Music Technology MSc) and production-grade data engineering. Based in Taiwan, he pairs hands-on coding with systems thinking and a knack for turning messy legacy environments into maintainable, documented platforms.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Saxophone Performance; minor Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Saxophone Performance; minor Computer Science at Ithaca CollegeMaster's Degree Music Technology, Master's Degree Music Technology at McGill University
English, French, mandarin/chinese
Github Skills (6)
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imei10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
music-notation10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
rism-digital/verovio
Dec 2014 - Apr 2017
🎵 Music notation engraving library for MEI with MusicXML and Humdrum support and various toolkits (JavaScript, Python)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:113 commits, 8 PRs, 30 comments in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on enhancing the engraving functionality of the verovio library. They implemented and refactored code related to the SVG device context, including adding support for Chord elements and refactoring the drawing process. These changes include adjustments to ledger lines, accidental positioning, and stem direction. Their contributions demonstrate a focus on improving the library's ability to handle complex musical notation elements accurately.
engravingpythonmusic-compositionpypisvg
RILMMusicLit/rilm.info-ft
Mar 2016 - Jan 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 13 comments in 5 years 11 months
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