Andrew Pau
Staff Software Engineer at Coinbase
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Pau is a Staff Software Engineer based in New York with 14 years of experience building infrastructure and distributed systems, currently leading Security Platform Engineering at Coinbase. He progressed through roles at Coinbase from cryptographic key management to senior and staff engineering, demonstrating deep expertise in secure, scalable backend systems. Prior roles at Yelp and eBay show strong data engineering and real-time analytics chops—streaming TBs of financial data, accelerating ETL runtimes 40x, and integrating TensorFlow workloads on Kubernetes. Comfortable across infrastructure, cryptography, and data pipelines, he combines production-grade ops experience with hands-on system design. Notably, his career blends security platform leadership with practical optimizations that materially improved business workflows like compensation pipelines and bulk purchase APIs.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (31)
evm10
metadata10
ethereum10
disco10
coinbase9
blockchain9
computation8
tailwindcss7
component-library7
react7
typescript6
wagmi6
file-management6
ui-components6
vim5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
10genNYUITP/MongoDisco
Feb 2012 - May 2012
Integration with the Disco Framework for distributed computation
Contributions:102 commits in 2 months
computationdiscodistributed
aflock/dotfiles
Aug 2015 - Mar 2020
Contributions:10 pushes in 4 years 8 months
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