Andy Janata
Senior Software Engineer at Gametime United
Santa Rosa, California, United States
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Top SchoolAndy Janata is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building high-performance, scalable systems across startups and enterprise environments. Based in Santa Rosa, CA, he specializes in Go, MongoDB, and Postgres and has deep experience with event-driven architectures, Kafka, and containerized deployments on Kubernetes. His background includes work at Google on Gmail, developing SaaS healthcare charting platforms, and architecting a syslog load balancer and event broker at Micro Focus, demonstrating strong skills in observability and production debugging. He contributes to open-source projects, notably improving back-end long-polling and maintainability for a web clone of Cards Against Humanity, showing attention to both architecture and user-facing real-time behavior. Comfortable across full stacks and on-call rotations, he blends pragmatic engineering with a focus on reliability and operational efficiency.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at The University of Akron
Github Skills (6)
javas10
long-polling10
guice10
java10
servlet10
javascript9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ajanata/PretendYoureXyzzy
Dec 2011 - May 2020
A web clone of the card game Cards Against Humanity.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:505 commits, 24 PRs, 97 pushes in 8 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Andy refactored and improved the codebase by extracting common elements from an `AjaxServlet` and addressing Guice configuration issues, demonstrating a focus on code maintainability and architectural improvements. They added support for long-polling, including features for broadcasting user connections, enhancing the server's ability to deliver updates to clients. This work involved the creation of a `LongPollServlet`, the modification of various Java classes, and the addition of JavaScript code for client-side functionality.
cards-gamecards-against-humanityreactgamehibernate
gametimesf/aws-ssm-env
Aug 2020 - Mar 2024
Simple utility to help export parameters from Amazon EC2 Systems Manager Parameter Store as environment variables
Contributions:1 release, 10 reviews, 7 PRs in 3 years 7 months
ecsenvironment-variablesec2amazon-ec2export
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