Andrew Whitaker
Principal Engineer at DriveWealth
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Whitaker is a Principal Engineer with 14 years of experience building robust SaaS applications, currently shaping platform capabilities at DriveWealth. He specializes in ASP.NET MVC, SQL and JavaScript, and has a track record of translating business requirements into maintainable, well-architected solutions across payments and fintech at PayPal and Braintree. A natural team leader and mentor, he has led scrum teams, owned architecture decisions, and tackled tricky domains like timezones, performance tuning and complex query design. Andrew pairs strong communication with a pragmatic engineering approach—favoring simplicity and test-first practices—and actively pursues new programming challenges outside of work, with a living portfolio on StackOverflow.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Virginia TechMaster's Degree, Computer Science, Master's Degree, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
English
Stackoverflow
125,386reputation
12.4mreached
1,488answers
3questions
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Github Skills (75)
jquery-plugin10
autocomplete10
user-input10
javascript10
jquery10
forloop10
validation10
html-table10
html10
increment10
ajax10
json10
jquery-ui10
jquery-validate10
asp-net-mvc10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
AndrewWhitaker/andrewwhitaker.github.io
Jan 2015 - Apr 2019
Contributions:22 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 3 months
AndrewWhitaker/jQuery-Aggregate
Dec 2011 - Mar 2014
Contributions:20 commits in 2 years 3 months
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