Andrew Pam
Experienced Developer at Project Xanadu
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Pam is a seasoned software engineer and systems specialist with 27 years of experience building and sustaining backend systems, APIs, and data pipelines for organisations like Block, Catch.com.au, Infoxchange and BroadSource. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Ruby, Python, Perl and Kotlin with pragmatic infrastructure skills around PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes and AWS to modernise legacy code and improve system reliability. Comfortable both as an individual contributor and technical leader, he mentors teams, produces robust documentation, and drives pragmatic architecture choices for long-lived platforms. His career spans tiny startups to critical production services, and he has a long-standing commitment to open source and digital sustainability that informs his tooling and operational decisions. Currently open to contract or salaried roles, he brings a steady, systems-first mindset that favours careful incremental modernisation over risky rewrites.
28 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Trinity Grammar SchoolPreshil
English, German
Github Skills (105)
amdgpu10
freebsd9
linux8
python8
metadata8
adafruit8
docker8
conferencing8
certificate8
i2c8
darwin8
monitor8
webrtc8
waf7
video-conferencing7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
osdakira/Mojolicious-Plugin-ErrorTracking-Sentry
Oct 2019 - Aug 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 comments in 4 years 10 months
xanni/jotty
Jul 2024 - Sep 2025
A text editor inspired by Ted Nelson's Jot
Contributions:18 PRs, 121 pushes, 19 branches in 1 year 2 months
text-editor
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