Andy Ford
Technical Lead & Senior Software Engineer at VATSIM
Peasedown St. John, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAndy Ford is a Technical Lead and Senior Software Engineer with nine years’ experience building large-scale distributed systems, client libraries and realtime platforms, currently leading the Chat mission at Ably. He combines hands-on engineering across the full stack with people leadership—mentoring, line-managing and collaborating closely with product and developer education teams to ship resilient realtime experiences. Previously he modernised healthcare software at Mayden, introducing frameworks, Docker and AWS migrations while owning security and release responsibilities. A volunteer lead developer at VATSIM, he maintains critical C++, C# and PHP tooling used by an international user base, showing a knack for interoperable systems and operational reliability. Studying for an MSc in Artificial Intelligence at Bath, he pairs practical production experience with ongoing AI study to tackle complex engineering problems.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Bath
Github Skills (119)
realtime10
messaging10
controller10
windows10
cmake10
chat10
alfresco10
visual-studio10
sector10
cpp10
javascript10
client-library10
linux10
laravel10
api10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
VATSIM-UK/uk-controller-api
Jan 2019 - Jan 2023
Central API for the UK Controller Plugin
Contributions:88 releases, 171 reviews, 1033 commits in 4 years 1 month
apicontrollerplugin
VATSIM-UK/uk-controller-plugin
Jan 2019 - Jan 2023
UK Controller Plugin for EuroScope 3.2.
Contributions:28 releases, 29 reviews, 720 commits in 4 years
controllereuroscopeplugin
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