Andrew Montalenti
Founder at PX Systems, Inc.
Greater Tampa Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Montalenti is a founder and seasoned engineering leader with 14 years of experience building highly scalable backend systems and developer tools. He co-founded Parse.ly (raising over $12M), served as its founding CTO and later CPO, and led its successful acquisition by Automattic, where he helped scale product and distributed engineering practices. Today he runs PX Systems, shipping a daily cloud runtime developer tool that gets engineers from code to cluster in seconds, while coding across Python, JavaScript, and Zig. His hands-on background spans large-scale telemetry and time-series systems (petabyte storage, billions of events) and open-source contributions such as Python tooling for Apache Storm. Colleagues describe him as a builder who blends deep systems craftsmanship with product sensibility and a knack for making backend engineering simple and joyful. An early creator of cross-language RPC-style tooling at Morgan Stanley, he brings decades of practical experience in developer-facing infrastructure.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Computer Science, B.A. Computer Science at New York UniversitySchreiber High School
Italian, English
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Github Skills (13)
clojure10
apache-storm10
python10
clojure-cli10
cli9
command-line9
command-line-interface9
testing7
api6
devops6
google-analytics6
dockers5
docker5
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
pystorm/streamparse
Feb 2014 - Apr 2015
Run Python in Apache Storm topologies. Pythonic API, CLI tooling, and a topology DSL.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:130 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Andrew contributed to the development of a Python-based framework for running Storm topologies. Their work included defining a Clojure DSL for Storm topologies, creating a command-line tool for local topology execution, and adding Python files to support the project build process. They upgraded the Storm version, and added commands for listing tasks and setting up virtual environments.
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amontalenti/muckhacker
Jan 2013 - Oct 2017
Contributions:14 commits, 1 push in 4 years 10 months
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