Andy Duncan
Head Of Engineering at Echobox
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndy Duncan is a Head of Engineering with 13 years of professional software experience and a background in physics from UCL, now leading engineering at Echobox after senior technical and leadership roles at ITV, Kinesso and 7digital. He believes the core value of software is its ability to change, and has built his career around enabling maintainable, evolvable systems through practices like TDD, DevOps and modern cloud patterns. A hands-on engineering leader, Andy contributes to JVM-focused open-source projects such as AxonFramework, improving MongoDB event store performance and reliability—showing attention to both correctness and operational scalability. He combines deep backend expertise with data and systems leadership, and prefers solving problems that make future change easier rather than just delivering one-off features.
13 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
University College London
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Github Skills (11)
javas10
cqrs10
mongodb10
event-sourcing10
java10
domain-driven-design10
mongodb-database10
scalability9
bson9
performance-monitor9
performance-analysis9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
AxonFramework/AxonFramework
Jul 2012 - May 2013
Framework for Evolutionary Message-Driven Microservices on the JVM
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Andy contributed to the project by addressing issues related to the MongoEventStore and MongoSagaRepository, which involved modifying and optimizing database interactions. These changes include altering the sorting parameters for snapshot events and re-arranging queries to improve performance and index utilization. They also ensured cursors in the MongoEventStore would not time out during event retrieval, and fixed an attribute-related issue in the BSON serializer.
event-sourcingaxon-frameworkaxoncqrsperformance
spring-projects/spring-data-mongodb
Jun 2013 - Jun 2013
Provides support to increase developer productivity in Java when using MongoDB. Uses familiar Spring concepts such as a template classes for core API usage and lightweight repository style data access.
Contributions:2 commits in 18 days
spring-bootspring-dataapidddproductivity
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