Andrew Sims
Senior Software Development Engineer at Flip
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Sims is a Senior Software Development Engineer based in Melbourne with 7 years of experience building reliable, distributed systems for identity, event transport, and workforce platforms. He has delivered high-throughput infrastructure at Zendesk (handling ~165M events/day) and led identity and access work at Culture Amp before moving to Flip. Comfortable across Scala, Go, Ruby on Rails and cloud messaging (Kafka, AWS SQS), he pairs pragmatic engineering with attention to operational guarantees like encryption key rotation. His background as a PhD researcher in philosophy informs a methodical, evidence-driven approach to complex system design and to mentoring colleagues. He has hands-on experience automating test pipelines and applying perceptual hashing to product features, reflecting a blend of production engineering and experimental curiosity. Colleagues describe him as a thoughtful problem-solver who translates rigorous analysis into maintainable, scalable software.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma of IT Information Technology, Diploma of IT Information Technology at Coder AcademyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Philosophy, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Philosophy at Deakin University
English
Github Skills (44)
e-government10
open-government10
democracy10
rails10
ruby10
database10
key-value9
consensus9
key-value-store9
kubernetes9
secrets9
etcd9
kafka9
distributed-systems9
storage9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
andrewcameronsims/Open-Gallery
Apr 2019 - May 2019
A two-sided marketplace for buying and selling original art, built using Ruby-on-Rails and deployed on Heroku.
Contributions:83 PRs, 96 pushes, 80 branches in 12 days
ruby-on-railsherokumarketplaceartrails
jliclaire/MERN_Vivify_Roofing_frontend
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
ReactJS, MongoDB, NodeJS, ExpressJS project - frontend part
Contributions:70 PRs, 40 pushes, 44 branches in 13 days
reactexpressjsnodejs-expressjsnodejs-mongodbexpress
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