Andrew Latimer
VP Of Engineering at Rabbet
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Latimer is a seasoned engineering leader with 16 years of experience building product-focused teams and scalable web platforms, currently serving as VP of Engineering in Austin. He blends servant-leadership and hands-on technical depth—having cofounded and served as CTO at Rabbet, built its initial MVP, and later led distributed engineering organizations at Zeus Living and Trellis. Known for mentoring managers, reducing turnover, and instilling ownership, he has driven measurable business outcomes like a >30% revenue-per-visitor lift and on-time Top-10 partner launches. A longtime Ruby/Rails practitioner and contributor to projects like the Rabl templating engine (where he optimized caching and parallel fetches), he pairs practical open-source impact with startup product instincts. He favors pragmatic process redesigns that balance agility and long-term initiatives, making him effective at turning constrained engineering resources into high-ROI delivery.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science Math (minor), BS Computer Science Math (minor) at The University of Texas at El PasoS17, S17 at Y Combinator
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Github Skills (18)
caching10
ruby10
performance-optimization10
templating9
rails8
ruby-rails8
json7
nohup6
paperclip6
fog6
ruby-on-rails6
stdin6
cobol6
apache6
plist5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nesquena/rabl
Mar 2013 - Jun 2013
General ruby templating with json, bson, xml, plist and msgpack support
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Andrew focused on improving the caching mechanism within the Rabl templating engine, enhancing its performance. The contributions involved refactoring the `read_multi` functionality for parallel fetching, optimizing cache key generation, and integrating with different cache engines. Furthermore, the user added the ability to disable `read_multi` and fixed issues related to how cached items were being returned.
msgpackbsontemplatingplistxml
ahlatimer/lazy_resource
Jul 2012 - Dec 2014
Contributions:141 commits in 2 years 4 months
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