Andrew Ochsner
Principal Engineer at Monstro
Omaha, Nebraska, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Ochsner is a Principal Engineer with 13 years of experience architecting cloud-native platforms and driving large-scale transformation across financial and enterprise sectors. Currently leading engineering at Monstro, he blends deep technical leadership with product-focused platform thinking to reimagine core banking for an AI-powered future. Previously an Associate Partner and Technical Principal at Cognizant/Contino, he led teams on multi-cloud adoption, Platform Engineering, DevSecOps, FinOps and reliability initiatives that reduced time-to-market and improved operational quality. A pragmatic hands-on engineer, he contributes to open-source projects like Backstage—adding AWS SDK upgrades and OpenSearch Serverless support—demonstrating both DevOps and back-end expertise. He holds MS and BS degrees in Computer Science from Stanford and pairs rigorous academic grounding with a track record of translating complex requirements into production-ready systems. Based in Omaha, he brings a rare combination of strategic consulting experience and deep implementation skill across cloud, automation, and platform engineering.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Stanford University
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Github Skills (27)
opensearch10
aws-sdk10
backstage10
amazon-elasticsearch9
aws9
aws-elasticsearch9
elasticsearchquery9
elasticsearch-api9
elasticsearch9
typescripts8
typescript-types8
typescript8
portal7
web-developer7
jpa6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
backstage/backstage
Mar 2023 - Apr 2024
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:19 reviews, 39 PRs, 37 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on upgrading the AWS SDK version for the Elasticsearch search backend module, including enabling OpenSearch Serverless support. They made code modifications to support AWS and OpenSearch configurations, including implementing AWS credentials management. Additionally, the user worked on merging branches and incorporating code changes related to upgrading the AWS SDK and related dependencies.
portalsinfrastructureopen-platformdxbackstage
buildit/digitalrig-metal-aws
Jan 2019 - Feb 2019
AWS Bare Metal Rig
Contributions:31 commits, 6 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 month
bare-metalmetalrigbareaws
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