Andy Lowry
Engineering Manager at Awaze
High Peak, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndy Lowry is an engineering manager with 12+ years of experience building high-performing, cross-disciplinary teams and shipping resilient production systems across startups and enterprise environments. He pairs hands-on technical depth—from Rust firmware and cloud orchestration to performance testing and DevOps—with people-focused leadership, recruiting and coaching teams to deliver measurable business value. Andy has led engineering at consumer and smart-home companies, driven peak-load performance work at Moonpig, and run a consultancy delivering embedded and mapping solutions that required precise orthorectification. An active community organiser (Rust Manchester, Elastic Manchester) and contributor to rust-native-tls, he brings practical open-source experience in cross-platform TLS and platform-specific security integration. Known for transparency with stakeholders and a penchant for teaching, he frequently speaks, writes, and runs leadership workshops to spread knowledge.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at University of York
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Github Skills (19)
ios10
tls1210
tls1310
mtls10
libtls10
security-framework10
rust10
multiplatform9
unit-testing9
cross-platform9
mocking9
moq9
task-parallel-library6
pfx6
visual-studio6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
rust-native-tls/rust-native-tls
May 2017 - Aug 2017
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:58 commits, 2 PRs, 14 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Andy primarily worked on the `rust-native-tls` repository, focusing on platform-specific implementations and cross-platform compatibility. Their contributions included making core components like `TlsConnector` and `TlsAcceptor` cloneable and adapting the project to use the security framework on iOS. They also addressed build issues and dependencies, while refactoring and making build adjustments.
SSheldon/rust-test-ios
Aug 2017 - May 2024
A tool for testing Rust libraries on iOS
Contributions:2 PRs in 6 years 10 months
rusttestingrust-librariesios
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