Andrew Pett
Staff Backend Engineer at Remote
Christchurch Metropolitan Area New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Pett is a Staff Backend Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native web and microservice architectures from Christchurch, New Zealand. He’s led teams and technical strategy at Abletech, guiding a 7-person engineering team while architecting solutions across industries such as energy, agriculture, health, and finance. Deeply hands-on with Ruby and Elixir, he combines AWS, Terraform, Postgres, GraphQL and serverless patterns to deliver pragmatic, production-ready systems. Comfortable moving between monoliths and microservices, he pairs senior engineering with practical DevOps experience (SQS, Kinesis, Lambda) and a track record of shaping hiring, career development and policy. Notably, he enjoys learning new technologies and prefers work that produces tangible, useful products for real users.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Taradale High SchoolBachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at Victoria University of Wellington
English, French
Github Skills (102)
melpa9
emacs9
decorators9
expressjs9
spacemacs9
vim9
pool9
macros9
cookie9
pooling8
candy8
queue8
api8
payment8
payment-integration8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
aspett/honeydew-ecto-notify-queue
Jun 2018 - Jun 2019
A honeydew queue backed by Postgres via Ecto, using Postgres notifications to drive job reservation
Contributions:1 release, 5 PRs, 27 pushes in 11 months
reservationelixirpostgres-notificationsnotificationstask-queue
aspett/.spacemacs
Nov 2015 - Jul 2018
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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