Andrew Tanner
Director Of Software Engineering at Instacart
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Tanner is a Director of Software Engineering based in Canada with 11 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and backend platforms. He has progressed through technical leadership roles at Instacart—owning AI infrastructure, backend platform, anti-fraud, core storage, and search/item retrieval services—demonstrating a strong track record of scaling systems in production. His hands-on background spans Kubernetes, AWS/GCP, Terraform, Python, Postgres, and platform automation, enabling him to bridge strategic planning and day-to-day engineering execution. Known for moving from tech lead to director within the same organization, he combines deep systems expertise with proven delivery leadership across high-impact initiatives like Caper at Instacart. Colleagues value his blend of platform-minded architecture and pragmatic delivery focus, plus his willingness to roll up his sleeves on complex infra problems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computing, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Computing, Computer Software Engineering at University of Guelph
Github Skills (23)
boto9
pooling9
aws8
postgresql7
failover7
load-balancing7
rust7
sharding6
spinnaker5
statistics5
docker-image4
bitbucket-api4
mongodb3
postgresql-database3
continuous-deployment3
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
atanner27/moto
Mar 2024 - Apr 2024
A library that allows you to easily mock out tests based on AWS infrastructure.
Contributions:10 pushes, 2 branches in 23 days
atanner27/test-git-merge
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
testing git merges
Contributions:4 PRs, 16 pushes, 3 branches in 8 days
mergetesting
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