Andrew Waterman
Principal Member Of Technical Staff at Salesforce
Bainbridge Island, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarAndrew Waterman is a Principal Member of Technical Staff with 15 years of experience building reliable email infrastructure, test automation, and full‑stack web systems, currently driving inbound and outbound email platform work at Salesforce. He blends deep test-automation expertise (Java, Python, jUnit, Maven) with cloud and web technologies to deliver production-grade services and tooling. His background spans early email marketing systems through enterprise middleware and academic research, reflecting a rare mix of product, infrastructure, and research-oriented engineering. A long-time maintainer and contributor to the popular tough-cookie Node.js library, he has tackled cookie parsing, security edge cases, and release leadership for multiple versions. Based on Bainbridge Island, he pairs pragmatic hands-on coding with a history of conference presentations and academic collaboration, making him comfortable translating complex requirements into robust, testable implementations. He’s known for quietly improving robustness and security in corner cases that often slip past larger teams.
15 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (6)
unit-testing10
nodejs10
javascript10
cookie10
testing10
open-source8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
salesforce/tough-cookie
Sep 2016 - Aug 2022
RFC6265 Cookies and CookieJar for Node.js
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 releases, 57 reviews, 20 commits in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on maintaining and improving the `tough-cookie` library. Their work involved updating the public suffix list, fixing parsing issues related to empty or missing strings, and addressing a security issue related to the `secure` property of cookies. They also implemented and updated unit tests to ensure the library's functionality and address specific edge cases, including a test for the `secure` property. Furthermore, the user contributed to the 4.0.0 and 4.1.0 releases.
node-jsjavascriptnodejscookiejarcookies
nodeschool/bainbridge
Nov 2014 - Jun 2016
Contributions:22 commits, 4 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 7 months
nodeschooljavascriptnodejsisland
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