Andrew Velis
Engineering Lead at SchooLinks
Concord, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Velis is an engineering leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling product teams across Medallia, Promoter.io, FIS Mobile and startups, now serving as an Engineering Lead in Concord, CA. He combines hands-on back-end, front-end and mobile experience with disciplined Agile practices to consistently turn delayed or stalled projects into reliable monthly release cadences and rapid 2–3 month feature deliveries. Notable outcomes include rescuing a late customer commitment that secured $1.2M ARR, driving a cloud migration that doubled NPS from 30 to 65, and boosting delivery performance 1.5x while eliminating attrition. He also contributes to open-source tooling—helping improve Django profiling code quality—and enjoys mentoring junior engineers and building data-driven testing and CI/CD frameworks. Andrew is drawn to roles that value rapid, safe shipping and measurable customer impact.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science, Computer Science, Bachelors of Science, Computer Science at University of San Francisco
Github Skills (5)
pep10
python10
django10
git9
testing8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jazzband/django-silk
Nov 2015 - Jan 2018
Silky smooth profiling for Django
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 76 commits, 109 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Andrew contributed to the Django-based project by making various improvements. They updated the repository URL in the README file and used pep8ify to improve code style across the codebase. The user fixed a typo in a template and addressed indentation issues, adhering to PEP8 guidelines. Several commits involved the refactoring and debugging of the system to handle edge cases during the saving of request and response objects.
djangoprofiling
aschn/drf-tracking
Nov 2016 - Apr 2020
Utils to track requests to Django Rest Framework API views
Contributions:8 releases, 4 reviews, 28 commits in 3 years 5 months
django-rest-framework
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