Andrew Kandels
Principal Software Engineer at SourceHUB, AI
Lanesboro, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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SeniorAndrew Kandels is a Principal Software Engineer with 15 years of experience designing and scaling full-stack web platforms, currently shaping architecture and delivery at Field Nation while also leading product and engineering efforts as CTO at SourceHUB. He has a strong track record building high-volume systems—from messaging and BI platforms at CaringBridge to a multi-tenant SaaS rewrite at Sportsdigita—and focuses on resilient data and user experiences. Comfortable across backend, frontend and DevOps, he’s implemented large-scale queues, ETL/OLAP pipelines, and performant search architectures that served millions of users and gigabytes of data. A pragmatic open-source contributor, he improved Zend Framework’s FormCheckbox helper with unit-tested features that show attention to UX edge cases and API fluency. Based in Lanesboro, Minnesota, he blends hands-on engineering with product-facing leadership, uniquely pairing deep legacy PHP/PHP‑framework expertise with modern data and cloud patterns. Colleagues rely on him to turn complex requirements into maintainable, production-ready systems.
15 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (13)
unit-testing10
zend-framework10
php10
formcontrol10
html7
k-sort6
css6
bash6
perl6
python6
html-table6
sorting6
ruby6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
zendframework/zendframework
Jun 2012 - Nov 2013
Official Zend Framework repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the Zend Framework by adding and refining the FormCheckbox view helper. They implemented features for single checkbox elements, including handling checked and unchecked values, and integrating a hidden input element. Their work involved writing unit tests to ensure the correct functionality of the FormCheckbox helper, and improving the helper by extending the fluent interface. The commits reflect a focus on improving the form components within the Zend Framework, including the addition of helper classes and related tests.
zend-framework
andrew-kandels/contain
Jul 2012 - Jun 2015
Fast and lightweight entity model framework for PHP without the fuss of an ORM.
Contributions:131 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 11 months
entity-modelormphp
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