Andrew Sayre
Director Of Engineering at GovDocs, Inc
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Sayre is a purpose-driven engineering leader with over 15 years of experience building and scaling high-performing teams for SaaS, IoT, and FinTech products. As a director-level executive he has led large cross-functional organizations through cloud-native transformations, launched a B2B IoT SaaS platform used in major partnerships, and modernized enterprise engineering at U.S. Bank to improve delivery, risk posture, and engagement. He combines hands-on architectural fluency across Java, .NET, Python, Go, Scala and AWS with strong people leadership—recruiting diverse talent, running agile change initiatives, and managing multimillion-dollar budgets. He also brings entrepreneurial grit from founding and running a technology services company that delivered 20 web apps with 99.99% uptime. An active contributor to open-source Home Assistant, he has deep empathy for user-facing integrations and embedded systems that prioritize privacy and local control. Based in Minneapolis, he focuses on creating environments where engineers grow, innovate, and deliver measurable business impact.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA Educational Psychology, Master of Arts - MA Educational Psychology at University of MinnesotaBachelor of Arts - BA Psychology English, Bachelor of Arts - BA Psychology English at Augsburg University
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Github Skills (5)
home-assistant10
python10
home-automation9
asyncio9
iot9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
home-assistant/core
Jan 2019 - Nov 2020
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:304 reviews, 105 commits, 452 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the SmartThings integration within the Home Assistant core. Their work focused on improving cover functionality, specifically addressing set position issues for window shades. They updated dependencies and modified the cover and test components to support window shade level control. The changes included modifications to the cover entity to set positions, as well as test functions.
raspberry-pipythonhouseprivacy-firstasyncio
andrewsayre/home-assistant.io
Jan 2019 - Apr 2020
:blue_book: Home Assistant User documentation
Contributions:31 pushes, 33 branches in 1 year 3 months
blueuser-documentationassistanthacshome-automation
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