Andrew Parker
Senior Software Engineer at FanDuel
Atlanta Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Parker is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems and products that people love, currently at FanDuel in the Atlanta area. He has led large cross-team initiatives—designing data pipelines, Kafka-based architectures, and high-throughput reporting systems that handled half a billion events per day—while mentoring engineers and shaping hiring efforts. His background spans backend, DevOps, and mobile/Unity game development, and includes practical experience automating deployments with Chef and integrating apps with AWS OpsWorks. Comfortable in Java/Spring, Spark, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Bigtable and cloud data stacks, he has a track record of turning risky projects around via early load testing and cross-functional coordination. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic design tradeoffs that scale, and he brings an engineer’s curiosity—continued learning and side projects—to every role.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science | Minor in Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science | Minor in Mathematics at Valdosta State University
Github Skills (6)
chef-client10
configuration-management10
chef-solo10
deployment-automation10
ruby10
nodejs4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
pencilblue/pencilblue
Apr 2015 - Dec 2015
Business class content management for Node.js (plugins, server cluster management, data-driven pages)
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:132 commits, 6 PRs, 8 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Andrew contributed to the project by adding deployment scripts and a config loader, which involved creating and modifying Ruby deployment scripts. They implemented deployment scripts using Chef to manage deployments and configure the application. Additionally, the user worked on integrating the application with AWS OpsWorks for automated deployments and health checks, indicating DevOps responsibilities. Finally, the user updated the code to reference environment variables for the load balancer name.
data-drivendata-managementnode-jsjavascriptcluster-management
andparker/pencilblue
May 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:9 pushes, 11 branches in 6 months
cmsdata-drivendata-managementfull-featurednode-js
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