Andy Brown
Director Of Software Engineering & Infrastructure at Astra
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAndy Brown is a seasoned software engineering leader with 19 years of experience building mission-critical systems, currently directing Software Engineering & Infrastructure at Astra in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has led ground and launch software for orbital missions, blending rigorous "test like you fly" engineering with hands-on infrastructure, security, and IT leadership. His background spans startups and enterprise engineering—from founding a hardware-and-app startup to shipping iOS apps at VMware and cloud-native work at Pivotal/VMware—giving him deep cross-stack fluency in embedded systems, cloud, and backend services. An active contributor to Cloud Foundry's cloud_controller_ng, he focuses on observability and resilient deployment behavior, reflecting a practical emphasis on metrics-driven performance and rollback safety. Known for translating complex operational requirements into reliable production systems, he pairs entrepreneurial curiosity with disciplined engineering processes.
18 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
San Francisco State University
objective-c, swift, javascript, java, go
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Github Skills (8)
cloud-foundry10
back-end-development10
ruby10
rspec9
api8
apidoc8
deployment-automation7
here-api6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/cloud_controller_ng
Jan 2019 - May 2019
Cloud Foundry Cloud Controller
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 11 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Andy primarily focused on enhancing the Cloud Foundry Cloud Controller, specifically by adding metrics and improving the app's performance. They modified code to include application and process GUIDs in metrics tags, enhancing data tracking. Their contributions include changes to support app revision links and correcting documentation. They also fixed a bug related to rolling back deployments, preventing rollbacks to identical states.
foundrycontrollercloud-foundrysap-hanaruby
andymoe/deno-buildpack
Sep 2020 - Mar 2021
Worlds simplest (for now) deno buildpack
Contributions:2 PRs, 25 pushes, 5 branches in 5 months
bundlersimplestbuildpackdenotypescript
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