Andy Porter is a Director of Software Engineering based in Florida with over 20 years of cross-disciplinary experience bridging software, hardware, and operations. At Salesforce he has led teams that turned internal observability and alerting systems into a $12M+ annual revenue product and drove a Service Health initiative that cut customer attrition by 60%. His background spans datacenter and networking ops, major SAN and cloud backup migrations (early GCP adoption), and rebuilding high-performing teams through strategic hiring and infrastructure modernization. Known for translating complex technical risk into business outcomes, he consistently delivers improved RPO/RTO, reliability, and cost-to-serve metrics. A former Army NCO with top-secret clearance experience, he brings discipline and systems thinking to large-scale, regulated environments. He combines tactical hands-on engineering with executive leadership to ship resilient, monetizable platforms ahead of industry trends.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts, Associate of Arts at Saint Leo College
AA Computer Science, AA Computer Science at Saint Leo University
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