Andy Getz
Business Architect at Bayer Crop Science
Remington, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndy Getz is a Business Architect with over a decade of IT experience building and operating enterprise systems for the agriculture sector, currently shaping digital strategy at Bayer Crop Science after a long tenure at Monsanto. He combines hands-on systems expertise—Active Directory, DNS, Windows Server—and network engineering roots with business-facing roles that bridge technical ops and B2B engagement. His Purdue Computer Technology background underpins a pragmatic approach to architecture and process improvement across large, distributed organizations. Andy is also an active contributor to notable open-source C++ projects like GoogleTest and Abseil, where he improved test robustness and low-level logging, reflecting a knack for reliable, signal-safe systems work that few business architects bring to the table.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Technology, BS, Computer Technology at Purdue University
Github Skills (10)
googletest10
c-language10
gmock10
cprogramming-language10
testing10
matcher9
system-programming9
multithreading8
error-handling7
build-system7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
abseil/abseil-cpp
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Abseil Common Libraries (C++)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 29 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Andy primarily contributed to the core libraries of Abseil, a C++ common library, by refactoring and modifying the raw logging system. Their work included renaming functions for clarity, introducing new features and customization hooks for raw logging, and improving signal-safe write functionality. The user also made improvements to thread identity and status string handling.
abseilcpp
google/googletest
Sep 2018 - May 2021
GoogleTest - Google Testing and Mocking Framework
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:23 commits, 65 PRs, 147 pushes in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Andy primarily contributed to enhancing the GoogleTest framework's death test capabilities. They modified existing tests to incorporate gmock matchers for more flexible death test assertions. The user also fixed issues related to NUL characters in error messages and added documentation clarifying the acceptance of arbitrary gmock matchers. Furthermore, the user addressed build issues by tagging a generated function with GTEST_ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED_.
googletestmockingtesting
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