Andrew Matheny is a Staff Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building cloud-native web and mobile systems, currently shaping infrastructure and platform at Slack. He combines polyglot engineering (Go, Java, Node, Python, Elixir) with deep expertise in AWS automation, gRPC/Thrift service layers, and CI/CD—often acting as tech lead and mentor on cross-functional teams. His background spans startups to large consumer platforms like realtor.com and Compass, where he led client/server communication layers and developer-facing gateways. An owner of a contracting practice and an active open-source maintainer, he has improved tools like awscurl to better support Python 3, region handling, and logging control—small but impactful usability fixes that show attention to developer ergonomics. Based in Morgantown, WV, he pairs an MS in Computer Science with a pragmatic focus on operability and shipping resilient systems.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at West Virginia University
curl-like access to AWS resources with AWS Signature Version 4 request signing.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:14 commits, 3 PRs, 3 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and maintainability of the `awscurl` tool. Their contributions include addressing issues related to Unicode handling in Python 3, integrating the standard AWS region environment variable, and implementing a mechanism to control logging verbosity. Furthermore, the user merged branches containing Python 3 support and default region configurations and fixed linting issues. These changes collectively refined the tool's performance and usability.
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