Andy Caruso
Director Of Engineering at Apprentice.io
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAndy Caruso is a Director of Engineering in San Francisco with eight years of leadership delivering regulated, pocket-sized device platforms and cloud-native biotech infrastructure. He blends deep firmware and medical-device compliance experience from Medtronic and Boston Scientific with platform and lifecycle engineering at Verily and Ganymede, where he built a multi-tenant biotech PaaS, event-driven data pipelines, and zero-downtime migrations to sustain 99.9% SLAs. Comfortable spanning hands-on backend work—evidenced by security-focused contributions to the popular Backstage developer portal—and product strategy, Andy routinely drives cross-functional teams through complex DHF and regulatory processes. He favors pragmatic automation (Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions) and observability (OpenTelemetry) to accelerate delivery while preserving traceability for clinical submissions.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
B. S. Computer Engineering, B. S. Computer Engineering at University of South Carolina
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Github Skills (20)
authorizations10
javascript10
user-authentication10
authentication10
backstage10
web-developer10
jsonwebtoken10
authorization10
jwt10
portal10
typescript9
typescript-types9
typescripts9
airflow-scheduler6
google-cloud-composer6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
backstage/backstage
Mar 2022 - Apr 2022
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 16 commits, 16 comments in 21 days
Contributions summary:Andy primarily focused on updating and maintaining the authentication and authorization components within the Backstage framework. Their commits involved upgrading dependencies like `jose`, refining the server token management, and correcting claims handling in the identity client. The user also addressed issues related to the public key handling for secure token verification, specifically updating the public key URL when the key lookup fails. These changes demonstrate a strong understanding of security-related backend functionalities within the Backstage ecosystem.
backstageinfrastructuredxdeveloper-experiencedeveloper-portal
Ganymede-Bio/dag-factory
Jan 2023 - Jun 2024
Dynamically generate Apache Airflow DAGs from YAML configuration files
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 1 year 4 months
airflowapache-airflowyaml-configuration
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