Andrew Jackson
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Metafy
Australia
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Top SchoolAndrew Jackson is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in Australia with 10 years’ experience building resilient, backend-focused systems and leading engineering work at Metafy. He has a strong background in backend development (notably Ruby) and practical full-stack experience, and has progressed through increasingly senior roles while driving architecture and delivery. Andrew is also an active contributor to crypto trading infrastructure—helping enhance the widely used gocryptotrader framework with robust logging, error handling, performance benchmarks and cross-exchange fixes. He combines hands-on coding with systems thinking, improving observability and reliability in production services. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he brings both enterprise-grade discipline and startup agility to complex distributed systems.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Studies, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Studies at RMIT University
Github Skills (11)
golang10
cryptocurrency10
logging10
go10
algorithmic-trading9
trading-bot9
rest-api8
api-rest8
exchange8
restful-api8
api-design8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
thrasher-corp/gocryptotrader
Nov 2018 - Sep 2020
A cryptocurrency trading bot and framework supporting multiple exchanges written in Golang.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:67 reviews, 47 commits, 44 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Andrew's commits primarily involved implementing and integrating a new base logger for the cryptocurrency trading bot. They updated various modules and wrappers, including example and test configurations, exchange helpers, and restful routers, to use the new logging system. The contributions also included adding error handling, benchmark tests, and fixing issues related to websocket functionality and data handling, ensuring the system's robustness and performance. The changes spanned multiple exchanges and included significant updates to core functionality.
exchangebotexchangestrading-platformcryptocurrency-trading
xtda/gocryptotrader
Nov 2018 - Oct 2020
A cryptocurrency trading bot and framework supporting multiple exchanges written in Golang.
Contributions:1123 pushes, 149 branches in 1 year 11 months
golangmarket-makerexchangetrading-botbot
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