Andy Gooding
Distinguished Software Engineer at Aerospike
Redwood City, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndy Gooding is a distinguished software engineer and architect with 13+ years building high-performance distributed systems and over a decade of embedded-systems experience. He spent the bulk of his career at Aerospike, rising from Chief Software Architect to V.P. of Engineering and now Distinguished Software Engineer, and has been a principal designer of its NoSQL database. He devised a novel approach to strong consistency in distributed systems and led the effort to add multi-record strict-serialization transactions to Aerospike. Comfortable moving between deep systems design and leadership, he combines theoretical rigor from a Ph.D. in physics with pragmatic engineering instincts honed in R&D and product roles. Based in Redwood City, he’s known for containing complexity to deliver low-latency, high-throughput production systems. An uncommon detail: his background in theoretical physics informs a pattern-driven, first-principles approach to solving distributed-systems problems.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BS Physics & Electrical Engineering, BS Physics & Electrical Engineering at Stanford UniversityPh.D. Physics (theoretical), Ph.D. Physics (theoretical) at Princeton University
Github Skills (27)
nosql10
in-memory10
security10
flash10
database-driver10
database-server10
nosql-database10
aerospike10
common-library10
database10
love2d9
client-library8
java-api8
defold8
java-client8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jxwr/aerospike-server
Oct 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:34 commits in 4 months
memorynosqlnosql-databaseaerospike-databaseflash
aerospike/act
Sep 2014 - Oct 2022
Aerospike Certification Tool
Contributions:29 commits, 15 PRs, 68 pushes in 8 years 3 months
aerospikesecuritycertification
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