Andrew Van Dam
Chief Nerd at Raw Matter
Perth, Western Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Van Dam is a hands-on technology leader and electronics-focused engineer with 11 years of experience building robotics, industrial automation, and serverless cloud platforms from Perth, Australia. As Chief Nerd at Raw Matter and former CTO roles at Tape Ark and Jevons Robotics, he has scaled complex systems—most notably growing a tape-to-cloud ingest pipeline from ~400GB/day to 250,000GB/day by combining custom electronics, IoT appliance control, and serverless AWS architecture. He thrives on designing transparent, robust systems that require minimal oversight and enjoys the craft of simplifying complex processes into elegant, reliable solutions. Equally comfortable in the lab or leading teams, he pairs deep low-level electronics and firmware expertise with cloud-native development (C#, Python, AWS) to bridge hardware and software. An active community educator, he regularly runs workshops and presentations to share practical learnings from building high‑G robotics and large-scale data ingest platforms. Colleagues know him for turning inventiveness into production-ready systems that perform in some of the harshest environments.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Curtin University of Technology
Github Skills (16)
transform7
serverless-applications7
lambda7
serverless6
aws-sam6
aws6
sam6
aws-cloudformation5
aws-lambda5
aws-serverless4
serverless-application-model2
platformio1
esp321
iot1
ide1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
RawMatter/IoT_Message_Box_Workshop
Nov 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:12 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
MOAMIndustries/blinkstick-python
Jun 2019 - Mar 2020
BlinkStick Python interface to control devices connected to the computer
Contributions:2 pushes in 9 months
pythonpython-interfacehome-automationconnectedblinkstick
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