Andrew Shanks
Software Engineering Manager at Rapid7
Dromore, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Shanks is a software engineering manager with a decade of experience leading security-focused development teams and shipping cloud-native tooling. He led the SCA product and Contrast CodeSec CLI at Contrast Security, combining hands-on full-stack development (Python, React, Java) with AWS-driven architectures and CI/CD practices. Now at Rapid7, he brings proven experience scaling OSS security tooling into production and improving developer workflows across microservices and serverless platforms. Comfortable both mentoring teams and diving into code, he has a track record of driving test automation, performance improvements, and deployment pipelines for high-usage applications. Based in Northern Ireland, he pairs an MSc in Computer and Electronic Security with a pragmatic focus on turning security data into actionable, customer-facing features.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Banbridge AcademyMSc Computer and Electronic Security Computer Science, MSc Computer and Electronic Security Computer Science at Queen's University Belfast
Github Skills (98)
pnpm10
yarnpkg10
selenium-webdriver10
nodejs10
npm10
docker-image10
javascript9
verdaccio9
bdd9
helm9
api9
firefox9
testing9
acceptance-testing9
proxy9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
awshanks/tkd_theory_patterns
Jul 2020 - Jun 2023
ITF TKD Theory and patterns sample project
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 11 months
itfpythonpatternstheory
contrastsecurity/contrast
May 2022 - Oct 2022
CodeSec by Contrast - The fastest and most accurate SAST scanner. Scan code and serverless environments
Contributions:8 commits, 7 PRs, 3 pushes in 4 months
serverless-environmentsscannerscansecurityserverless
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