Andrew Hust
Consulting Engineer at Imprivata
Littleton, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Hust is a seasoned consulting engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience designing and shipping resilient, pragmatic software for e-commerce, payments, media distribution, and finance. He combines deep backend expertise in Go, Java, and Python with broad operational skills across AWS, Terraform, Docker, Nomad, and monitoring tooling to run large-scale, secure systems. His career spans leadership and individual-contributor roles—from building multi-terabyte Cassandra clusters and real-time analytics to reducing transcoding costs by 92% through custom architectures. A Certified Scrum Master and AWS-certified developer/solutions architect, he also contributes to notable open-source tooling such as apache/cassandra-ccm, improving compatibility and robust Java version checks. Based in Littleton, Colorado, Andrew is comfortable moving between strategic architecture and code-level fixes, favoring simple pragmatic solutions to complex business problems.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Metropolitan State University of Denver
Github Skills (7)
javas10
python10
cassandra10
java10
error-handling9
subprocess8
testing6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
apache/cassandra-ccm
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
A script to easily create and destroy an Apache Cassandra cluster on localhost
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 1 comment in 15 days
Contributions summary:Andrew contributed to the Cassandra CCM project by enhancing its compatibility and functionality. They focused on validating Java versions for Cassandra, ensuring the correct Java version is used for Cassandra 3.0+. This involved code changes across multiple files to implement version checks and error handling. Furthermore, the user streamlined the Java version checks into a dedicated method and added debug output functionality.
cassandralocalhostapachecassandra-clusterapache-cassandra
nutbunnies/dotfiles
Nov 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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