Andy Urquhart
Software Engineer at PowerX Technology
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAndy Urquhart is a versatile full-stack software engineer with eight years’ experience building data-driven systems across cloud platforms, currently focused on streaming data and backend Python at PowerX Technology. With a strong theoretical physics and mathematics background from Lancaster, he excels at rapid problem solving, translating data science work into production services, and mentoring junior engineers. He’s delivered end-to-end solutions—from AWS Lambdas, Kafka streams and Postgres to React/TypeScript frontends and Plotly dashboards—often owning deployments, CI/CD and infrastructure as code. Comfortable across AWS, GCP and Azure, Andy has a knack for turning raw data into insightful visualisations and live metrics, and has repeatedly taken over legacy projects to stabilise and improve them. Notably, he moved a streaming service from RabbitMQ to Kafka and created a Python-to-Go logger used across teams, reflecting both pragmatic engineering and a taste for impactful tooling.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Theoretical Physics with Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree, Theoretical Physics with Mathematics at Lancaster University
Github Skills (40)
java9
streaming9
batch9
python8
registers8
sql8
golang8
beam8
streaming-data7
cloud-foundry7
read-write7
big-data7
data-processing7
logging6
apache-beam6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
urquha/harvest_forecast_to_bigquery
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
A repo for TPXimpact to ingest forecast data in python and load into bigquery.
Contributions:44 commits, 5 PRs, 27 pushes in 9 months
pythonbigqueryforecastforecast-dataingest
tpximpact/GCP-Data-Pipelines
Feb 2023 - Oct 2023
Contributions:10 PRs, 43 pushes, 8 branches in 7 months
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