Andrew Watts
Chief Technology Officer at FortiFi
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Watts is a seasoned engineering leader and CTO based in Los Angeles with 16 years of experience building scalable, secure, and high-performance web platforms. He progressed from hands-on systems engineering and geospatial work at Northrop Grumman to leading product-scale engineering at TrueCar through IPO, where he rebuilt core platforms to sustain millions of monthly users and built a company-wide experimentation framework. At FortiFi he scaled into executive technology leadership, combining team-building with operational ownership of reliability and analytics. He is comfortable spanning full-stack development, systems architecture, and data/ETL modernization—often stepping into both coding and strategic roles during hypergrowth. Notably, he has repeatedly modernized legacy systems into testable, measurable platforms, turning ad hoc metrics into consistent analytics across complex product ecosystems. Trained at Purdue in computer science, he blends government, startup, and enterprise experience to deliver pragmatic, production-ready systems.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Purdue University
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Github Skills (29)
python-wheel9
django8
pypi8
monitor7
redis7
amqp7
python7
sentry7
internet-explorer6
buffered6
stdout6
devops6
pipe6
jquery6
monitoring6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
andrewwatts/dotfiles
Dec 2009 - May 2012
Contributions:113 commits in 2 years 4 months
andrewwatts/ui.tabs.closable
Jan 2010 - Aug 2010
Contributions:4 commits in 7 months
javascriptjquery-uijquerytabs
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