Andy Fries
Staff Software Engineer at Airbnb
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolAndy Fries is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and shipping distributed backend systems, currently leading engineering efforts at Airbnb after senior technical leadership roles at Amazon and a social-good startup, ParentCubby. He specializes in serverless AWS architectures, event-driven systems, and scalable media and playback services—having led the launch of Amp and the primary Alexa music request platform. Andy combines deep hands-on implementation (from microservices and event buses to test frameworks) with organizational influence, running cross-team presentations and mentoring engineers at scale. His open-source contributions include backend work on the XMage game engine, showing a penchant for complex rule-driven systems outside of his day job. Based in Boulder, he pairs product-focused technical vision with a commitment to sustainable software and team development.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Colorado State University
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Github Skills (12)
magicleap10
javas10
magick10
java10
card10
logic10
game-engine8
videogames6
mt6
gameplay6
ai6
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
magefree/mage
Oct 2014 - Nov 2015
XMage - Magic Another Game Engine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 11 PRs, 5 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Andy contributed to the game engine by adding and modifying card implementations. They added cards such as "Academy Elite", "Acquire", "Annex", "Belbe's Portal", "Maralen of the Mornsong", "Override", "Sunscour", "Urborg Justice", "Voidmage Husher", "Jinxed Choker", and "Political Trickery." These additions involve creating the card, setting card types and abilities, and implementing the card's specific effects in the game engine.
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andyfries/mage
Jan 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:16 pushes, 10 branches in 10 months
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