Andrew Neth
Senior Software Engineer at Xplor
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Neth is a Senior Software Engineer based in Chicago with 11 years of experience building backend systems and improving developer-facing tools. Currently at Xplor, he brings production-grade engineering from prior roles at TackleAI and academic research developing low-level VM and OS software on Amazon Firecracker. He has a strong systems and tooling background—both teaching data structures, systems programming, and contributing improvements to the popular fish shell, where he tightened argument handling and completion logic for command-line utilities. Comfortable across low-level virtualization work and pragmatic backend improvements, he focuses on reliability, code quality, and developer experience. Colleagues describe him as a practical problem-solver who bridges research-grade systems thinking with shipping customer-facing features.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology
Github Skills (7)
command-line-tool10
rust10
shell10
data-structure5
algorithms5
algorithm5
data-structures5
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
fish-shell/fish-shell
Feb 2019 - Feb 2019
The user-friendly command line shell.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 reviews, 1 commit, 7 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Andrew made several commits focused on improving the completion logic for the `mkvextract` command-line tool, within the context of the fish shell. The updates involved more rigorous argument handling and file completion. The contributions showcase a focus on enhancing the user experience for command-line tools within the fish shell environment, indicating backend-related work. The user also streamlined code and addressed code quality issues.
bashterminalfishcommand-lineshell
The0x539/fish-shell
Feb 2019 - Apr 2024
The user-friendly command line shell.
Contributions:49 pushes, 14 branches in 5 years 2 months
bashterminalfishcommand-lineshell
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