Andy Mention
Senior Software Engineering Manager - Core Platform Teams
Leadville, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndy Mention is a senior engineering leader with 12 years of experience who currently leads Core Platform engineering at Homebase, shaping developer experience, service architecture, and authentication systems that product teams rely on daily. He blends hands-on technical direction—driving a service-oriented architecture transition and redesigning identity models—with people leadership, mentoring new managers and creating growth pathways. Andy champions a product-oriented approach to internal platforms, building reusable tooling and frameworks that accelerate partner teams while keeping focus on shipping meaningful solutions over features. His background spans backend systems in Elixir and Ruby, large-scale PostGIS optimization, and pragmatic choices in service communication patterns, reflecting a bias for practical, iterated progress. Based in Leadville, Colorado, he pairs strong cross-functional collaboration with a knack for creating the organizational conditions that let engineering thrive.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development, Web Development at Turing School of Software & DesignB.A., Geosciences, Art, B.A., Geosciences, Art at Hamilton CollegeCertificate, GIS, Certificate, GIS at University of Denver
English, Italian, German
Github Skills (35)
geocoding10
mongoid10
ruby9
rails-api9
csharp9
php9
api9
cpp9
grpc8
python8
coercion8
objective-c8
rest7
ruby-on-rails7
rest-api7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
AndyDangerous/dotfiles
Dec 2015 - Jul 2020
Contributions:46 commits, 40 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 7 months
AndyDangerous/dotfiles-v2
Aug 2020 - Mar 2023
tanmdoan dotfiles
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
dotfilesvimzsh
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