Andrew Padilla
Sr. Principal Software Engineer at Northrop Grumman
Lawndale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Padilla is a Sr. Principal Software Engineer with a decade of experience building cloud-ready, full-stack systems and leading DevSecOps teams at Northrop Grumman. He blends hands-on expertise in MEVN/MERN stacks, Rust/Anchor smart contracts for Solana, and distributed stream processing (Kafka + Storm) to deliver digital transformation for model-based systems engineering across ground, cloud and space domains. As an engineering lead and DevOps integrator he's managed teams of 30+ engineers, shipping CI/CD, Kubernetes orchestration, and secure deployments for mission-critical platforms. His background spans mobile and embedded enterprise apps, data pipelines for ML, and founding a Web3 startup—highlighting a mix of practical delivery and entrepreneurial drive. Notably, he operationalizes bleeding-edge stacks (from Solana smart contracts to containerized data warehouses) to bridge systems engineering workflows with production-grade software.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
El Camino CollegeHawthorne Math and Science AcademyComputer Science, Computer Science at Cerritos CollegeBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at California State University-Los AngelesUniversity of California, Los Angeles
English, Spanish
Github Skills (12)
polymer3
testing3
security2
interoperability2
logging1
docusaurus1
solana1
logger1
nodejs1
android1
console1
documentation1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
drew2g/Hospital-App-P-P-E
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
An app to track inventory of hospital equipment, as needed per covid19
Contributions:10 PRs, 14 pushes, 11 branches in 5 days
inventoryreacthospital
drew2g/first
Apr 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
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