Andy Cohen
Senior Software Developer at RoleModel Software
Kansas City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolAndy Cohen is a Senior Software Developer with over a decade of hands-on experience building Ruby on Rails applications and custom SaaS products for regulated industries. He has led design and delivery of complex systems like a pharma-grade QMS and native mobile safety apps, combining domain-driven development with rigorous practices such as TDD and CI/CD. Andy partners closely with clients and end users to translate business processes into auditable, production-ready software—often working through regulated requirements like GAMP-5. He’s contributed to the popular stripe-ruby library, improving API object retrieval and test coverage, showing a strength in API integration and backend maintainability. Based in the Kansas City area, he brings a practical engineering background that includes embedded/electrical training and certified motorcycle technician experience, which fuels a hands-on, problem-solving approach. That mix of regulated-product discipline, open-source contributions, and real-world mechanical troubleshooting makes him adept at turning ambiguous requirements into reliable systems.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering at DeVry University-MissouriCertified BMW technician, Harley Davidson, Yamaha, BMW, Certified BMW technician, Harley Davidson, Yamaha, BMW at Motorcycle Mechanics Institue, Phoenix AZHighschool Deploma, Highschool Deploma at Lees Summit High School
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Github Skills (12)
api10
apidoc10
ruby10
testing9
objective-c6
uiimageview6
ios6
namespaces6
activeadmin6
iphone6
subview6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
stripe/stripe-ruby
Mar 2015 - Jul 2015
Ruby library for the Stripe API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 9 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Andy primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Stripe Ruby library. They focused on improving the retrieval of data from the API by supporting expansions within `ListObject` and extracting and refactoring code for better maintainability. Additionally, the user added test cases to the API resource to support and validate expansion functionality. The changes reveal a focus on API interaction and object retrieval logic within the library.
rubystripe-apistripestripe-sdk
OutlawAndy/OutlawAndy
Jul 2021 - Jan 2026
Contributions:1 PR, 23 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 6 months
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