Andrew Plotner
Consultant- Windows Systems Cloud Architecture at IBM
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Plotner is a Windows systems and cloud architecture consultant with eight years of IT and military operations experience, currently advising IBM after senior engineering roles in the private sector and the Air Force. He combines a methodical, analyst’s mindset—honed as a chemist and forensic science graduate—with hands-on systems work, having led large-scale network operations, baselining initiatives, and SOP standardization for thousands of endpoints. Comfortable across Windows and Linux environments, he pursues a path toward DevOps and maintains a home lab plus public documentation and interactive tutorials to share knowledge. An active open-source contributor, he has fixed timing and audio issues in the etterna rhythm game, demonstrating attention to low-level timing bugs and cross-platform reliability. Colleagues benefit from his emphasis on documentation, repeatable processes, and teaching-minded leadership that turns reactive teams into proactive operators.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
N Massage Therapy/Therapeutic Massage, N Massage Therapy/Therapeutic Massage at Herzing UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.) Forensic Chemistry, Master of Science (M.S.) Forensic Chemistry at George Mason UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Pharmacology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Pharmacology at Creighton University
English, Japanese, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
thread9
concurrency9
multithreading9
hyper-threading9
threaded9
macos8
videogames8
gameplay8
tempo7
rythm7
macos-mojave6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
etternagame/etterna
May 2020 - Jan 2023
Advanced cross-platform rhythm game focused on keyboard play
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:132 commits, 68 PRs, 118 comments in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving code related to the game's timing mechanisms and audio handling. They addressed a macOS black screen bug by correcting the math and adjusting the timing of threads. The user also resolved an integer overflow issue within the RageTimer constructor, which was causing timing-related problems. Additionally, they merged branches and refactored code to improve efficiency and maintainability.
gamerhythm-gamefocusedkeyboardcross-platform
bluebandit21/Photo-Collage-Project
Jan 2019 - Jan 2022
Contributions:4 PRs, 10 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years
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