Andrew Schmelyun
Lead Software Engineer at Quest Diagnostics
Port Saint Lucie, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Schmelyun is a Lead Software Engineer based in Orlando with 11 years of experience building full-stack web applications and bioinformatics pipelines using PHP (Laravel), modern JavaScript (Next.js/Vue), Docker, and Kubernetes. He leads and mentors cross-functional teams, formalizing code quality, automated testing, and onboarding documentation to reduce bugs and accelerate delivery for mission-critical genetic testing systems. A prolific educator and content creator, Andrew has produced technical courses for Laracasts and actively contributes practical DevOps work—most notably a docker-compose workflow that streamlines local Laravel development. He blends hands-on engineering with stakeholder collaboration, translating complex scientific requirements into maintainable, testable architectures. Outside of work he focuses on lowering barriers to entry for developers through tutorials and open source tools.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's Degree, Associate's Degree at Indian River State College
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Github Skills (16)
php10
docker10
docker-compose10
nginx10
dockers10
alpine-linux9
cicd7
actionscript6
wordpress6
flash6
css6
frontend6
menu6
bash6
laravel6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
aschmelyun/docker-compose-laravel
May 2019 - Nov 2022
A docker-compose workflow for local Laravel development
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:86 commits, 33 PRs, 75 pushes in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on configuring the Docker environment for a Laravel development workflow. Their contributions included creating and modifying Dockerfiles for PHP, Nginx, and Composer, incorporating user/group management, and defining environment variables. They also streamlined the docker-compose setup, updating paths and consolidating configurations to improve maintainability and address potential permission issues, adding root level access where necessary.
docker-composelaravel
aschmelyun/cleaver
Dec 2019 - Jan 2022
🔥🔪 A blazing-fast static site generator using Laravel's Blade templating engine
Contributions:20 releases, 79 commits, 20 PRs in 2 years 2 months
laravelstatic-site-generatortemplating-engine
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