Andrew Marshall
Technical Project Manager at Verisk
New York, New York, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolAndrew Marshall is a Technical Project Manager in New York with 15 years of experience transitioning from hands-on software development to leading cross-functional Agile teams and delivery trains. He specializes in SAFe, Scrum, and Kanban, driving high-visibility, multi-team programs and healthy team dynamics while focusing on user experience and corporate goals. His background includes directing product roadmaps, release coordination, and mentoring teams across SaaS, government, and enterprise domains. A pragmatic technologist, he still contributes to open-source—improving PostgreSQL full-text search integration in pg_search and enhancing Nix and Vim tooling—bringing deep backend and configuration-management instincts to project leadership. He holds an MS in Software Engineering and a BA in Psychology, which he leverages to balance technical rigor with people-first leadership.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Psychology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Psychology at Oberlin CollegeMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Software Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Software Engineering at George Mason University
Stackoverflow
96,045reputation
6.5mreached
851answers
7questions
colors
top-5%
rubygems
top-5%
logging
top-5%
dictionary
top-5%
git
top-5%
regex
top-5%
Github Skills (65)
postgresql10
nix10
testing10
rspec10
code-completion10
dotfile10
vim-plugin10
home-manager10
ruby10
vim10
rake10
activerecord10
ruby-on-rails10
javascript10
rounding10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
Casecommons/pg_search
Dec 2013 - Dec 2018
pg_search builds ActiveRecord named scopes that take advantage of PostgreSQL’s full text search
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:52 commits, 5 PRs, 23 pushes in 5 years
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on refactoring and improving the `pg_search` library. They addressed specific issues related to ActiveRecord compatibility, especially for older versions. They also modernized the codebase, including migrating to RSpec's modern syntax and removing unnecessary dependencies. Furthermore, the user's contributions involved optimizing and improving the database integration, which is key to this library.
pg-searchtrigramsscopesfull-text-searchtsearch
vim-ruby/vim-ruby
Mar 2013 - Oct 2018
Vim/Ruby Configuration Files
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Andrew contributed to the vim-ruby repository by enhancing the Ruby syntax highlighting and code completion features for the Vim editor. Their work included supporting new Ruby language features like `prepend` and the unicode characters in identifiers and constants. They also fixed bugs related to matching group references in code completion and modified indentation rules.
vim-pluginsconfiguration-filesrubyvim
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.