Andrew Jorgensen
Software Engineer at Digits
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Jorgensen is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building backend systems, deployment tooling, and cloud-native infrastructure from startups to major tech firms. Based in Cambridge, MA, he has shipped production software at Twitter (Crashlytics), Google, Root Insurance, and currently Digits, bringing deep expertise in distributed systems and reliability. His open-source contributions include improving build and deployment pipelines for Apache Heron—adding Docker optimizations and S3 upload support—highlighting a knack for smoothing complex CI/CD and artifact workflows. Earlier work spans consultancy and product engineering at Backupify and independent contracting, demonstrating versatility across web, SaaS, and operations roles. Notably, he was trusted early in his career to lead technical operations and budgeting as a university CTO, signaling strong technical leadership beyond coding. He combines practical DevOps instincts with backend engineering discipline to drive reliable, scalable releases.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BromfieldBachelor of Science, Computer Science and Engineering, Mathematics, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Engineering, Mathematics at The University of Connecticut
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Github Skills (22)
docker10
bash10
dockers10
cicd10
heron10
build-automation10
messaging9
java9
javas9
streaming9
aurora9
s3-bucket8
amazon-s38
aws-s38
passenger6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
apache/incubator-heron
Jan 2016 - Apr 2018
Apache Heron (Incubating) is a realtime, distributed, fault-tolerant stream processing engine from Twitter
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:53 commits, 41 PRs, 8 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Andrew's contributions primarily focused on improving the build and deployment process for the Heron stream processing engine, as well as fixing bugs related to backend systems. They implemented features to streamline the Docker build process, including setting up a scratch directory and tagging the build container with the platform. In addition, they addressed a critical bug in the Aurora scheduler related to an immutable list used for command construction. Furthermore, the user introduced S3 uploader support for the topology packages, demonstrating contributions towards build artifacts and deployment configuration.
fault-tolerantstream-processingtwitterheronstreaming
ajorgensen/ajorgensen.github.io
Oct 2016 - Mar 2025
Contributions:4 PRs, 183 pushes, 19 branches in 8 years 7 months
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