Summary
Andrew Theis is a software engineer with a decade of experience building large-scale backend systems, from petabyte-scale health research tooling to real-time content pipelines at Meta and Twitch. He specializes in performance and reliability engineering—latency, memory, and capacity optimization—and has driven measurable impact like 46% more views per post for creators, 91% fewer app-switch failures, and nearly 1PB saved in ML feature capacity. Comfortable across full-stack, data infrastructure, and ML feature pipelines, he has led privacy-sensitive migrations and cross-product API work under tight regulatory timelines. A former studio arts major who describes himself as “artist += programmer,” Andrew brings a creative lens to engineering problems and a track record of mentoring and cross-functional collaboration across international teams.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Python-based Full-Stack web app development, Python-based Full-Stack web app development at PDX Code Guild
Bachelor’s Degree Studio Art, Bachelor’s Degree Studio Art at Willamette University
English