Andrew Wendt
Senior Engineering Manager at Cerbo
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Wendt is a Senior Engineering Manager with 12 years of hands-on and leadership experience building reliable, testable systems and scaling engineering teams at high-growth companies. He combines deep technical chops—ranging from greenfield APIs to DevOps and test automation—with a track record of improving delivery metrics, reducing cycle time, and driving down defects. Andrew has repeatedly modernized legacy codebases, instituted developer-led quality practices, and increased focus on technical debt and app health to sustain long-term velocity. He pairs people-first management (hiring, coaching, and promoting managers) with pragmatic hands-on work, having materially protected ARR through key integrations and platform work. An active contributor to test suites in open-source projects (notably improving OAuth2 and model validator coverage in the Xeroizer library), he’s also an ultra runner—bringing endurance and steady pacing to complex engineering challenges. Based in Salt Lake City, he seeks roles with authority to shape engineering practice and measurable business impact.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (20)
unit-testing10
test-driven-design10
ruby10
oauth10
test-automation10
ubuntu9
docker-compose9
linux9
docker9
php9
api-testing9
macos9
namespaces6
phpstorm6
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
waynerobinson/xeroizer
Dec 2019 - Jan 2020
Xero accounting system API library.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:40 commits, 1 PR, 16 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on enhancing the test suite for the Xeroizer library. Their contributions centered on adding unit tests and test helpers, particularly for validators and model definitions. They also added tests for OAuth2-related API calls, including GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE requests, improving the library's testing coverage and ensuring its stability. Furthermore, the user contributed to acceptance tests, increasing the reliability of the integration.
accountingapiaccounting-systemxeroapi-library
AndyWendt/Go-Recruiting
Apr 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:25 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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