Andrew Nester
Senior Software Engineer at Databricks, Developer Ecosystem
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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RockstarAndrew Nester is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale distributed web applications and mentoring engineers on career growth, soft skills, and systems design. Currently at Databricks and active as a MentorCruise mentor, he combines hands-on engineering with people leadership to guide teams through complex backend and full-stack challenges. His open-source contributions include meaningful fixes and improvements to major frameworks like Django and Yii2 and enhancements to the Ace editor, reflecting a focus on reliability, tooling, and developer experience. He has a track record of diagnosing subtle bugs across middleware, validation, and build systems, and improving test coverage and documentation. Based in Amsterdam, he brings both enterprise and OSS perspectives to scalable architectures and developer productivity. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic system design and thoughtful coaching that accelerates engineering growth.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (39)
yii10
application-framework10
javascript10
python10
django10
testing10
app-framework10
databases10
typescript10
editor10
php10
php-framework10
orm10
typescript-types10
code-editor10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
ajaxorg/ace
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Ace (Ajax.org Cloud9 Editor)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:28 releases, 94 reviews, 109 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to improving the Ace (Ajax.org Cloud9 Editor), including code improvements, bug fixes, and release management. Their work involved fixing rendering issues with Unicode characters, enhancing the beautify extension, and updating typings. They were responsible for various bug fixes and implemented code lens functionality and several theme improvements.
cloud9
ajaxorg/ace-builds
May 2022 - Jun 2022
Packaged version of Ace code editor
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 10 commits, 1 PR in 29 days
Contributions summary:Andrew's commits primarily focus on updating and packaging the Ace code editor, specifically within the `src-min-noconflict` directory. They added and then reverted the addition of new language modes and snippets. They also made changes to `webpack-resolver.js` and `ace-modules.d.ts` suggesting a focus on build and module configuration.
code-editor
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