Andrew Kerr
Distinguished Developer at AJK Solutions Inc
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Kerr is a Distinguished Developer and full-stack engineer with 25+ years of hands-on experience building server-side, client-side and cloud-native systems, and 13 years of recent professional experience shaping large-scale products. He brings deep expertise in modern JavaScript (browser and Node.js) and Java, a practical history with Ruby, PHP and C++, and an extensive track record designing AWS architectures using EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS and CloudFormation. A longtime advocate of test-driven development, Agile practices and continuous delivery, Andrew has led and mentored distributed teams at Shopify, IBM iX and other firms while running his own consultancy, AJK Solutions. He combines legacy perspective—from tinkering on a Sinclair ZX81—to contemporary cloud-first engineering, making him especially effective at modernizing systems while keeping an eye on pragmatic operational needs.
13 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Bachelor's Degree at University of Toronto
Github Skills (136)
azure-functions10
ruby10
linter10
serverless10
relay10
super-linter10
html10
lambda10
graphql-ruby10
cloud-services10
vagrant10
elasticsearch-js10
aws-lambda10
rails10
java10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
ajkerr/graphql-ruby
Jun 2018 - Sep 2022
Ruby implementation of GraphQL
Contributions:6 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 3 months
railsrubygraphql
ajkerr/aoc-cli
Dec 2020 - Dec 2024
a ruby tool for playing with Advent of Code
Contributions:2 PRs, 27 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 1 month
playingruby
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