Andrew Young
Software Engineering Manager at Indeed.com
Chiyoda, Japan
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Top SchoolAndrew Young is a seasoned software engineering manager with over 25 years in tech and 16 years in leadership roles, currently leading a distributed team at Indeed in Tokyo focused on scalable metadata and taxonomy systems that power high-throughput resume and job-matching APIs. He blends deep hands-on engineering experience across many languages and stacks with formal training in software engineering and an unusual second master's in theology, which informs his strengths in mentoring, organizational change, and public speaking. Andrew has led cloud migrations to AWS, built low-latency systems serving millions of daily requests, and recently spearheaded efforts to safely integrate agentic AI (Claude Code) into engineering workflows, producing prompts, guidelines, and MCP tooling. His background includes satellite-ground systems and network operations at Infostellar and contributions to open-source tooling like mongo-hacker where he added useful process-management helpers for MongoDB shells. Curious and multidisciplinary, he began programming at age 10 and brings interests from linguistics and NLP to amateur radio and travel, making him a pragmatic technical leader who thrives at the intersection of people, process, and emerging AI.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Linguistics, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Linguistics at The University of Texas at AustinMaster of Arts - MA, Theology/Theological Studies, Master of Arts - MA, Theology/Theological Studies at Austin Presbyterian Theological SeminaryMaster of Science (MS), Software Engineering, Master of Science (MS), Software Engineering at California State University-Fullerton
English
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Github Skills (20)
javascript10
scripting10
mongodb-database10
script10
sh10
shell10
mongodb10
databases9
database9
api-design8
command-line7
command-line-interface7
cli7
whitespace6
html6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
TylerBrock/mongo-hacker
Oct 2016 - Jan 2017
MongoDB Shell Enhancements for Hackers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 3 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to enhancing the `mongo-hacker` tool, a MongoDB shell extension. Their work involved developing new shell helpers, specifically `ps` and `kill`, for process management within the MongoDB environment. Further contributions included updating existing code for compatibility with older MongoDB shell versions and adding new functionalities to the `ps` command, adding features such as argument parsing to extend the operations.
mongodbshelljavascriptshell-extensiondatabase
vaelen/prelude
Apr 2015 - Feb 2020
Contributions:20 pushes in 4 years 10 months
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