Summary
Andrew Reed is a Senior Software Engineer based in Columbus, Ohio with 11 years of experience focused on code quality, testing, and process efficiency. He excels at modernizing legacy applications—refactoring codebases, introducing automated tests, and simplifying build pipelines—while also enjoying greenfield projects designed with simplicity and high test coverage from the start. His background spans insurance and academia, including hands-on work with Java, Maven, CI, automated testing, Perl/JavaScript for data-driven web apps, and 24/7 on-call production support. At Central Insurance he progressed from developer to senior engineer, bringing practical experience converting manual tests to automated suites and streamlining complex builds. Colleagues know him as the engineer who deliberately seeks messy systems to make them clean and maintainable, and as a former math tutor he brings patient, analytical problem-solving to team collaboration and troubleshooting.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Engineering, 3.357, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Engineering, 3.357 at The Ohio State University
3.966, 3.966 at Central Ohio Technical College
English, German, Latin