Summary
Andrew 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.
27 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Trinity Grammar School
Preshil
English, German