Andy Davidson
Group CTO & Product Director at ASK4 Ltd
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndy Davidson is a seasoned technology leader and Group CTO/Product Director with 12 years in senior engineering and product roles, currently shaping connectivity solutions at ASK4 and co-leading Asteroid International. He has a proven track record building and operating Internet exchange and carrier platforms—co-founding IXLeeds and serving on boards such as LONAP and Euro-IX—delivering low-latency, highly automated networks that connect major players like Google and Microsoft. Comfortable spanning product, networks, and software, he has led teams building Python/FastAPI backends, Ansible-driven orchestration, Arista-based switching, and responsive React frontends hosted on AWS. Known for practical innovation, Andy has launched industry-first automation products (real-time provisioning and any-to-any direct connect) and scaled exchanges to 100G+ volumes. Based in Sheffield, he blends hands-on technical depth with commercial and regulatory experience, quietly contributing code and community knowledge to the peering ecosystem.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Caistor Grammar School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (98)
code-server10
rest9
api9
json9
swagger-ui8
async8
act8
openapi8
python8
swagger8
junos-automation8
fastapi8
json-schema8
redoc8
monitoring7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
asteroidhq/jbgpq3
Jul 2017 - Oct 2021
A JSON wrapper for bgpq3 with caching.
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes in 4 years 3 months
cachingjsoncache
asteroidhq/napalm-influx
Jul 2017 - Aug 2020
Contributions:13 pushes in 3 years 1 month
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