Andy Rea
CTO & Co-founder at Levantar AI
St Helens, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndy Rea is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with over a decade of hands-on experience building cloud-native, secure platforms and AI products. As Co-founder of Levantar AI and a consulting technical architect, he blends pragmatic backend engineering, cloud architecture and strong security practices to help organisations deploy AI responsibly and at scale. His career includes measurable impact across UK government programmes and private sector platforms—reducing costs, improving reliability and cutting deployment times by hours through pragmatic migration and optimisation strategies. Comfortable coding across languages from Python and Go to Java and Kotlin, he stays deeply involved in delivery while shaping technical direction and mentoring teams. Notably, his background spans both product-led startups and large public-sector transformations, giving him a rare fluency in rapid innovation and governance-driven engineering.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) E-Business, Bachelor of Science (BSc) E-Business at Liverpool John Moores University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (76)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
reaandrew/shtats
Jan 2022 - Nov 2022
Git Statistics
Contributions:24 PRs, 138 pushes, 15 branches in 9 months
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reaandrew/schmokin
Jul 2018 - Sep 2022
Easily smoke test your web apps using curl and assertions from schmokin
Contributions:73 releases, 165 commits, 10 PRs in 4 years 2 months
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