Andy Chen is an engineering leader and founding engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient cloud-native infrastructure and end-to-end products from San Francisco. He’s driven large-scale DevOps at Turo—authoring Terraform modules, operating Kubernetes/EKS, and implementing canary deployments with ArgoCD, Istio, and Prometheus—while also improving developer velocity at Minted through cross-language tooling and proto migrations. At Patlytics he combines SRE, platform and product work to “make everything better,” a mission reflected in his open-source MERN back-end contributions and a hacker streak that produced 16 wins in 20 hackathons. A top 1% mentor and civic partner, Andy pairs entrepreneurial instincts (founder experience in blockchain and startups) with pragmatic engineering, mentoring the next generation and unlocking team potential.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Associate's degree, Anthropology, Associate's degree, Anthropology at Foothill College
Certificated, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Certificated, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Startup School Online
Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Draper University
Contributions:2 releases, 5 reviews, 146 commits in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Andy's commits primarily focused on setting up and implementing core back-end functionalities for a MERN stack application. They created the necessary files and configured the server to handle requests. Key contributions include establishing a connection to a MongoDB database using Mongoose, defining user models, and implementing sign-up and sign-in routes with basic authentication using bcrypt.
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 8 PRs in 1 year 6 months
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