Andrew Platkin
Chief Technology Officer at beehiiv
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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SeniorAndrew Platkin is a technology leader and CTO at beehiiv with 11 years of experience building scalable web products in the creative newsletter space. He blends hands-on expertise in Ruby, Go, React, and PostgreSQL with strategic engineering leadership, having advanced from software engineer to principal engineer and now CTO. Based in Chicago, he has a track record of improving platform scalability and advising fast-growing media startups like Morning Brew. His background spans full-stack development, data and BI work, and consulting across industries, which gives him a pragmatic, metrics-driven approach to product engineering. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex requirements into maintainable systems while keeping developer velocity high. He also brings an operator’s mindset from early startup founding and consulting roles, which informs his focus on shipping measurable business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (45)
swift8
ios8
objective-c7
macos7
cocoapods6
xcode6
migration-tool5
react5
carthage5
react-native4
migration4
cli3
database3
addon3
rails-api3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
plattyp/personal-blog
Jan 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:33 pushes in 2 years
plattyp/addon
Mar 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:10 PRs, 38 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year 7 months
golangherokuaddon
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