AndyΒ Boothe
Head Of Data Platforms
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolAndy Boothe is a data platforms leader with 14 years of experience building cloud-native, data-driven products and teams, now serving as Head of Data Platforms at MAHA Global while running his consultancy aleph0. He blends hands-on engineering (Java, C roots, pragmatic Python) with strategic architecture and machine learning product leadership from a long tenure as Chief Architect at Real Chemistry. Andy has a track record of shipping reliable backend services and contributing to notable open-source projects like Twitter4J, where he expanded API support and hardened HTML parsing. Comfortable moving between code, models, and business strategy, he also brings investment diligence and product commercialization insight from earlier roles. Based in Chicago, he combines technical depth with a knack for translating complex data into actionable client decisions.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Technology Commercialization, MS, Technology Commercialization at Texas McCombs School of BusinessBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinA&M Consolidated
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Github Skills (24)
apidoc10
vba10
twitter-api10
java10
javas10
api10
excel10
timezone10
jar9
datetime9
amazon-web-services9
http9
iso9
testing8
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Twitter4J/Twitter4J
Jul 2012 - Oct 2013
Twitter4J is an open-source Java library for the Twitter API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Andy focused on enhancing the Twitter4J library, primarily by implementing new features and improving the handling of HTML entities. Key contributions include adding support for the `/statuses/retweeters/ids` API, incorporating a count parameter, and refining the HTML entity processing logic to address multiple escape scenarios. These changes demonstrate a focus on expanding the library's capabilities and ensuring correct data parsing and representation.
apijava-libraryjava-sourcetwitter4jtwitter-api-v2
sigpwned/emoji4j
Mar 2022 - Feb 2023
A high-performance emoji processing library for Java 8+
Contributions:3 releases, 34 reviews, 81 commits in 10 months
emojijava-8performanceprocessing-libraryjava
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