Andrew Nagel
Technical Lead at USPTO
Wake Forest, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Nagel is a tenacious technical lead with nine years of software engineering experience and a 20+-year background in education and mentoring, currently leading modern development initiatives at the USPTO. He has repeatedly served as hands-on technical lead, product owner, and change agent—modernizing legacy systems and championing DevSecOps, CI/CD, and developer services across large federal organizations. His technical breadth spans Java/Spring Boot, Hibernate, PostgreSQL, JWT/LDAP security, webhooks, and front-end frameworks, and he has driven PoCs for Kafka, GitOps, and testing/automation platforms to inform enterprise adoption. A lifelong educator, Andrew has tutored 50+ clients over 750+ hours and taught data-driven decision making, bringing a teacher’s clarity to onboarding, tech talks, and cross-functional collaboration. Based in Wake Forest, NC, he combines rigorous academic training in biochemistry and mathematics with graduate coursework in computer science, giving him a rare mix of analytical depth and pragmatic engineering leadership.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityBackend Engineering: Java and Clojure, Backend Engineering: Java and Clojure at The Iron YardB.S Biochemistry, B.S Biochemistry at Grove City College
Github Skills (12)
discord5
plugin5
npm4
nodejs4
maven-mojo4
cli4
mojo4
cucumber-jvm3
cucumber3
maven3
java3
npm-cli2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
turboska5/tiy-final-project
Sep 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:308 commits, 254 pushes, 3 branches in 23 days
turboska5/turboska5.github.io
Apr 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 51 pushes, 5 branches in 25 days
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