Summary
Andrew Williamson is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years at GoDaddy building scalable, production-grade data and observability platforms. He designs and ships distributed systems—Query Service, global availability pollers, Elasticsearch-as-a-Service—using Docker, AWS (Lambda, ECS, EKS), Kafka, and ELK to deliver nightly metrics, dashboards, ML jobs, and security tooling without impacting customers. He moves projects from proof-of-concept to funded teams and adapts platforms across products and clouds while leading deployments, monitoring, and incident awareness. Andrew also mentors early-career engineers through hiring, an intensive pre-internship bootcamp, and hands-on training, reflecting a strong commitment to talent development. Early success as an independent iOS developer who built a backend-serving app with hundreds of thousands of requests per month shows long-standing full-stack curiosity and product focus. Based in Tempe, AZ, he combines operational pragmatism with a continual appetite for learning and optimization.
7 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Engineering, Software Development, Algorithm Development and Optimization, Programming Languages, Math, Computer Science Engineering, Software Development, Algorithm Development and Optimization, Programming Languages, Math at Arizona State University