Summary
Andrew Rothwell is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building automation pipelines and cloud-native systems, currently leading engineering work at Ironclad after earlier platform engineering at IBM. He blends a strong academic foundation from Purdue with applied research experience in NLP, genetic algorithms, and large-corpus search, which informs pragmatic automation and data-driven tooling. His background includes financial services internships at Fidelity and FactSet, giving him domain fluency in fintech workflows in addition to hybrid cloud expertise. Known for moving projects from prototype to production, he combines systems-level thinking with hands-on coding across backend and infrastructure concerns. Based in Chicago, he brings a curiosity for cross-disciplinary problems and a track record of shipping reliable, scalable engineering solutions.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Purdue University