Andrew Livesay
VP Of Engineering at Wild Ducks
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Livesay is a Portland-based VP of Engineering and solutions architect with over two decades of experience building and leading distributed, cloud-native systems across startups and large public institutions. He combines deep hands-on expertise—from building a DAG-based VM and Temporal-driven orchestration to high-volume event pipelines and serverless platforms—with proven leadership delivering mission-critical services (including a library API platform handling 1.5M daily calls). Comfortable across C/C++ to TypeScript and Go, he architects scalable backends, real-time workflows, and CI/CD/PaaS automation while mentoring engineering teams. Notably, his work spans unique custom VMs and DSLs for data pipelines and orchestration, reflecting a penchant for inventing purpose-built infrastructure rather than relying solely on off-the-shelf tools.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at UMass BostonFine Arts, Fine Arts at King's College
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (82)
ftp-server10
multi-factor-authentication9
chalk9
azure-storage9
sneakers9
puppet8
proxy-protocol8
amiga8
portable8
console-log8
ansi8
libretro8
tty8
sftp7
javascript7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
alivesay/suggestion-notifier
May 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:98 pushes, 1 branch, 6 comments in 3 years 1 month
alivesay/rest1459
May 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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