Andrew Safigan
Web Developer at Tellus Science Museum
Kyoto, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Safigan is a web developer with a decade of experience building and scaling SaaS products, having led development at Agency Spotter from prototype to a revenue-driving platform adopted by Fortune 500 clients like Nike and Unilever. He’s comfortable across the full stack—TypeScript, Node.js, React, GraphQL, PostgreSQL—and has hands-on backend expertise in Rust, contributing substantive improvements to Diesel’s Postgres integration. After relocating to Kyoto to study Japanese, he continues to blend focused engineering with mentorship, hiring and growing a team while maintaining infrastructure and integrations. An avid rock climber and space enthusiast, he brings curiosity and discipline from outdoor pursuits and interests in the space industry into pragmatic, well-tested engineering.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, 3.4, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, 3.4 at Furman University
English, Japanese
Github Skills (5)
rust10
orm10
postgresql10
query-builder10
tdi10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
diesel-rs/diesel
Feb 2021 - Feb 2021
A safe, extensible ORM and Query Builder for Rust
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 reviews, 11 commits, 1 PR in 8 days
Contributions summary:Andrew focused on refactoring and improving the Diesel ORM's Postgres integration. Their contributions involved allowing for multiple implementations of `PgMetadataLookup`, enhancing the type metadata handling, and improving the caching of type metadata within the connection. Furthermore, they addressed code formatting issues and removed unnecessary trait bounds to improve code clarity. These changes suggest a focus on the internal workings of the ORM related to Postgres database interaction.
querymysqlrustsqlbuilder
asafigan/pdfium_rs
Nov 2020 - May 2021
A Rust wrapper around PDFium allowing you to render PDFs from Rust
Contributions:62 commits, 16 PRs, 23 pushes in 6 months
renderpdfrustpopplerpdfium
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