Drew Engelson
Director Of Engineering, Unified Commerce And Loyalty Platform
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDrew Engelson is a seasoned technology executive with over 15 years of experience leading cloud-native engineering teams to build high-scale commerce, loyalty, and payments platforms for global brands like Starbucks, PBS, and National Geographic. He combines hands-on architecture skills (Scala, Java/Kotlin, Kubernetes, Kafka, Cassandra, AWS) with strategic leadership, driving AI adoption and measurable cost optimizations in distributed microservice environments. Drew has repeatedly built platform foundations—PaaS, identity, CMS, DAM, and API ecosystems—that enable faster innovation and frequent deployments across millions of daily transactions. As a founder and advisory board member, he blends startup grit with enterprise delivery, mentoring teams from ideation to production. He’s also an advocate for planet-positive technology, applying engineering practices to reduce digital carbon emissions while improving customer engagement.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BA Philosophy, BA Philosophy at University of Michigan
French, Spanish, python, Romanian
Stackoverflow
185reputation
22kreached
12answers
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Github Skills (34)
audio-files9
audio9
django8
api-client7
saucelabs7
django-caching6
django-views6
heroku6
python-client6
api6
client-library6
django-settings6
ftp6
python6
django-cache6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tomatohater/django-unfriendly
Aug 2011 - Nov 2016
Contributions:119 commits, 7 PRs, 38 pushes in 5 years 4 months
urlsobfuscatespythondjangotown
tomatohater/django-pgcryptoauth
Jul 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:19 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 8 months
passwordspythonencodeddjangopostgresql
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