Andy Edwards
Software Security Engineer at ETS
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolAndy Edwards is a Software Security Engineer in Austin with 11 years of experience blending practical application development and security operations. He has transitioned through roles at ETS from technical analyst to senior analyst and into security engineering, demonstrating an ability to translate business needs into secure, auditable systems. A prolific open-source contributor, Andy has improved front-end UX and styling in the widely used Material-UI library and contributed type and database fixes to projects like sequelize and flow-typed, showing full-stack fluency. He pairs hands-on React and Node.js expertise with deeper knowledge of ORMs, type definitions, and transactional SQL behavior. Outside work he balances intense coding with an adventurous caving hobby — and is known to remind collaborators to @ him if issues slip through.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Business Administration and Management General, Business Administration and Management General at Mercer County Community CollegeComputing and Informatics, Computing and Informatics at Rowan University
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Github Skills (48)
sequel10
javascript10
react-components10
npm10
postgresql10
flow-control10
testing10
css10
work-flow10
material-ui10
type-definition10
redux10
react-component10
redux-form10
orm10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
flow-typed/flow-typed
Sep 2017 - May 2021
A central repository for Flow library definitions
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 53 commits, 66 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Andy contributed to the definition files for various npm packages within the repository. They fixed and extended coverage for the `redis` package, resolving bugs and enhancing its functionality. The user also created initial definitions and fixed issues for `sequelize` v4.x.x, a popular ORM, indicating proficiency in database interaction and type definition. They also added definitions for promisify-event and luxon_v0.2.x, improving the type safety of the project.
libdefsflowtypedefinitionscli
sequelize/sequelize
May 2018 - May 2020
Feature-rich ORM for modern Node.js and TypeScript, it supports PostgreSQL (with JSON and JSONB support), MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, MS SQL Server, Snowflake, Oracle DB (v6), DB2 and DB2 for IBM i.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:42 commits, 55 PRs, 222 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:Andy primarily contributed to the Sequelize ORM, focusing on database-related features. They fixed JavaScript documentation issues and implemented support for the `ignoreDuplicates` option with `ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING` in PostgreSQL. The user also refactored code to remove bluebird Promise API calls and eliminated the usage of `Promise.join`. Additionally, the user made adjustments and improvements related to transaction management, query interface, and other methods.
feature-richormsql-servermicrosoft-sql-serversequelize
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