Andrew Thorburn
Lead Software Engineer at Personio
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolAndrew Thorburn is a Lead Software Engineer based in Berlin with 13 years of experience modernising enterprise applications and advising clients on cloud-native transformation. He has deep hands-on expertise in Spring, Cloud Foundry, microservices and migration projects, taking systems from legacy stacks to production-ready, scalable architectures. Andrew has a strong consulting pedigree from Pivotal/VMware where he led high-stakes migrations and performance troubleshooting for telecoms, manufacturing and public-sector clients, including work on a COVID-era NHS backend. He combines technical leadership with developer enablement—teaching teams the 12-factor approach, CI/CD practices and Kubernetes/Cloud Foundry patterns—to make modernisation sustainable. Outside the usual resume highlights, his background spans both business and technical studies (conjoint BCA/BSc plus Chinese), reflecting an unusual mix of commercial, legal and cultural fluency that helps when aligning engineering work to organisational needs.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Conjoint BCA/BSc, Accounting, Commercial Law, Computer Science, Conjoint BCA/BSc, Accounting, Commercial Law, Computer Science at Victoria University of Wellington
English, German
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Github Skills (187)
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
ipsi/icarus-offline-character-editor
Feb 2022 - Apr 2023
Basic GUI editor for *offline* characters for the game Icarus: First Cohort
Contributions:5 releases, 5 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 year 3 months
fltkgui-editorc-plus-plusguihex-editor
ipsi/mailgun-contact-form
Dec 2018 - Sep 2023
Contributions:4 pushes in 4 years 9 months
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