Andrew Shewmaker
Senior Software Engineering Manager at OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Shewmaker is a Senior Software Engineering Manager with 13 years of experience building cloud-native platforms and leading backend teams, currently managing engineering at OpenEye/Cadence Molecular Sciences from Santa Fe. He specializes in scalable orchestration and workflow systems—having been a core engineer on Orion, an elastic scheduler used to prepare and search billions of 3D molecular conformers in collaboration with AstraZeneca. His background blends rigorous research (PhD-level work in computer science and real-time network performance) with hands-on HPC and systems engineering at Los Alamos and Idaho National Labs, giving him deep expertise in distributed systems, performance tuning, and production reliability. A pragmatic leader and mentor, he moves fluidly between designing APIs and database models and guiding teams to deliver scientific-grade cloud services. Unusually for a manager, he also pursues creative writing, producing fiction alongside technical work, signaling a knack for storytelling and communicating complex ideas.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of IdahoUniversity of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (94)
python10
ansible9
ssh9
high-performance8
lambda8
automation8
fuse8
aws8
fat8
devops8
replication8
cloud-storage8
serverless-framework8
storage8
aws-lambda8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
agshew/k_grok
May 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:27 commits, 35 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
agshew/ceph
Nov 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:38 commits, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 4 months
file-storagecephdatabasestoragedistributed
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