Andrew Widddersheim
Software Engineer at Figma
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Widddersheim is a seasoned software engineer and SRE with 13 years of experience building and operating large-scale cloud platforms and developer-facing systems. He’s held senior reliability roles at Amazon and GitHub and now works at Figma, bringing deep expertise in automation, monitoring, and secure platform engineering. A long-time open-source contributor, Andrew has improved critical projects like OSSEC, monitoring-plugins, and kitchen-ansible—work that spans security hardening, Ansible provisioning quirks, and monitoring plugin robustness. His background includes leading multi-region OpenStack automation, shipping petabyte-scale backup and monitoring systems, and driving PCI/HIPAA-compliant operations. Colleagues know him for pragmatic problem solving and a knack for turning messy operational constraints into reliable, automated workflows. Based in Philadelphia, he blends infrastructure craftsmanship with active contributions to widely used OSS tooling.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at Pennsylvania College of Technology
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Github Skills (60)
monitoring10
json10
api-rest10
icinga10
debug10
security-hardening10
python10
api-design10
mysql10
restful-api10
vulnerability10
windows10
it-security10
nagios10
configuration-management10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
ossec/ossec-hids
Dec 2013 - Jul 2016
OSSEC is an Open Source Host-based Intrusion Detection System that performs log analysis, file integrity checking, policy monitoring, rootkit detection, real-time alerting and active response.
Role in this project:
Back-end & Security Engineer
Back-end & Security EngineerContributions:1 release, 193 commits, 39 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the OSSEC agent's functionality across multiple platforms (NIX, Windows). They addressed issues related to command-line arguments, ensuring that configuration files were properly loaded and that debug levels could be set from both the command line and the configuration file. The user also worked on security-related aspects of the agent, specifically related to file permissions and the secure creation and update of configuration files. Furthermore, they contributed to improving the output of Windows event logs, enhancing the logging information for better monitoring.
policyloganalyzerreal-time-detectionintegritypolicy-monitoring
noirbizarre/flask-restplus
Mar 2015 - Apr 2016
Fully featured framework for fast, easy and documented API development with Flask
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 commits, 31 PRs, 32 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to fixing typos and improving documentation within the `flask-restplus` project. They also implemented features to enhance the Swagger documentation, including adding the ability to specify examples for fields and custom fields, and to support PATCH methods. Furthermore, the user made changes to enhance the usability of the API by improving the handling of reqparse lists and choices, along with addressing an issue related to error handling and resource documentation.
apipythonflask-apirestfulflask
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