Summary
Andrew Reder is a Senior Software Engineer and tech lead with 11 years of experience building scalable full-stack systems and cloud-native architectures from Portland, Oregon. He has driven measurable business outcomes—such as a 40% increase in payment volume and raising core system reliability to 99.9%—by combining frontend and backend expertise with pragmatic DevOps and microservices design. At Coinbase he led platform-wide authentication and network re-architecture to streamline legacy service deprecation, and at OpenGov he rebuilt reporting infrastructure to cut query times 10x and accelerate release cycles. He mentors engineers on secure design and scalability, earning a company-wide impact award for leading a rapid Sev1 security response. Comfortable across React, Node.js, AWS, Kubernetes and observability tooling, he blends hands-on engineering with repeatable processes that boost developer velocity. A former psychology major turned computer scientist, he brings a user-focused mindset to complex system design and team leadership.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Psychology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Psychology at University of Oregon
Computer Science, Computer Science at Pacific University
Spanish, Japanese