Andy Shiers
COO Operations Manager
Greater Reading Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndy Shiers is an experienced operations and technical leader with over three decades working at the intersection of Dyalog APL, AIX, and IBM hardware, now serving as COO/Operations Manager at Dyalog Ltd. He combines deep hands-on expertise in APL programming, system administration, SAN/storage and POWER systems with customer-facing roles in QA and support, bridging product engineering and enterprise deployments. Known for long-standing collaborations with IBM technical experts, he brings pragmatic troubleshooting and scripting skills honed from early actuarial APL systems through modern enterprise infrastructure. Passionate about Dyalog APL’s future, he still champions product quality and customer success while running operations, often nudging for fixes and improvements behind the scenes.
9 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Actuarial Science, BSc, Actuarial Science at City St George’s, University of London
Github Skills (57)
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ride10
dyalog10
isolate10
remote-access10
text-files9
mechanism9
synchronization8
development-tools8
parallelization8
testing7
workspace7
odbc7
parallel-computing7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Dyalog/SSGMon
May 2022 - Jun 2025
Security Issue Monitor
Contributions:6 PRs, 15 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 1 month
security
Dyalog/DBuildTest
Feb 2020 - Feb 2025
Repository for ]DBuild & ]DTest
Contributions:2 reviews, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 5 years
apldbmsdatabase-accessdyalogtesting
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