Summary
Andrew Sharp is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building production systems at companies ranging from Palantir and Google internships to Cloudflare and currently Circle. He specializes in scalable, reliability-focused engineering across cloud and security-conscious environments, having moved from forward-deployed problem solving to core infrastructure at major platforms. Andrew blends hands-on systems work with pragmatic product awareness, shipping features that balance performance and operational safety. Educated as a Turing Scholar at UT Austin with an integrated BSc/MSc in Computer Science, he brings strong academic foundations to real-world engineering problems. Colleagues know him for quickly surfacing root causes in complex distributed systems and for turning intricate requirements into maintainable code. Outside day-to-day work he documents and shares his thinking at sharpandrew.com, signaling a habit of reflective engineering and continuous learning.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Integrated BS/MS Honors (Turing Scholars) Computer Science, Integrated BS/MS Honors (Turing Scholars) Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin