Andrew Jeffries
CTO at FounderCatalyst
Stevenage, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorAndrew Jeffries is a hands-on CTO with 17 years of experience building cloud-native platforms and developer-focused products, currently leading technical strategy at FounderCatalyst to deliver affordable legal paperwork solutions for UK startups. He co-founded and served as CTO of Civo, where he built the initial product and API, guided distributed teams, and shaped the company’s cloud-native hosting roadmap. A seasoned Ruby on Rails developer and DevOps/automation engineer, Andrew contributes to projects like the Civo Kubernetes Marketplace, improving build/test automation and dependency validation. He combines pragmatic engineering with people leadership—mentoring teams, defining standards, and communicating technology to customers and investors. Outside work he runs a successful community taekwondo club, demonstrating long-term operational turnaround and grassroots management skills.
17 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
English, Korean
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Github Skills (24)
kubernetes10
docker10
testing10
bash10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
helm10
kubernetes-pods10
automations10
configuration-management9
yaml9
clustering8
cluster-computing8
k3s8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
civo/kubernetes-marketplace
Aug 2019 - Feb 2022
Marketplace of Kubernetes applications available for quick and easy installation in to Civo Kubernetes clusters
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:124 commits, 50 PRs, 132 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on improving the build and testing process of the marketplace. Their contributions include adding automated tests, writing scripts to lint configurations, validate descriptions, and check for missing or incorrectly formatted assets like logos and required files. The user also automated dependency checks and versioning validation. Additionally, they set the default storage class to Longhorn.
clustersinstallationhybrid-cloudstoragehelm
whichdigital/active-rest-client
Jun 2013 - Sep 2015
ActiveRestClient API Client
Contributions:214 commits, 24 PRs, 47 pushes in 2 years 4 months
api-clientapirailsrubyrest
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