Andy Nutter-upham
Staff Software Engineer at Whitehead Institute
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolAndy Nutter-upham is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building reliable systems at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, MA, with deep expertise in Ruby/Rails, Java, Python, and Go. He thrives in Linux environments and blends a practical software engineering mindset with cognitive psychology training from Northeastern, which informs his focus on usability. Andy prefers mission-driven work over corporate or front-end roles and is particularly motivated by projects with substantial social impact, such as scientific tools for biomedical research. As an active open-source contributor, he has improved maintainability and automation in community projects like the Obsidian resource hub, enhancing discoverability through scripting and test improvements. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic refactors and robust backend engineering that keep complex research software productive and maintainable.
13 years of coding experience
University of WashingtonB.S C.S. & Cognitive Psych., B.S C.S. & Cognitive Psych. at Northeastern University
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Github Skills (21)
markdown10
python10
scripting10
markdown-it10
fileio10
file-processing10
file-handling10
file-access10
obsidian10
regular-expression9
data-structures8
data-dictionary8
structures8
ruby-on-rails6
targets6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
obsidian-community/obsidian-hub
Nov 2022 - Dec 2022
Resource hub for Obsidian resources.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 27 commits, 17 PRs in 20 days
Contributions summary:Andy primarily contributed to improving the codebase's maintainability and functionality within the Obsidian resource hub. Their work included refactoring the footer script for better logging and file handling, adding features to the uncategorized plugins, and improving the test suite for themes. They also implemented a script to automatically alphabetize plugin lists, demonstrating an understanding of data organization and automation within the context of the Obsidian ecosystem. These changes enhance the discoverability and quality of the resources available in the repository.
obsidianobsidian-mdobsidian-vaultobsidian-plugin
andynu/oracle-enhanced
Jun 2022 - Mar 2025
Oracle enhaced adapter for ActiveRecord
Contributions:1 PR, 78 pushes, 29 branches in 2 years 9 months
oracle-databaserailsrubyadapteroracle
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