Summary
Drew Hoover is a product-minded software engineer with 11 years of professional experience and nine years as an individual-contributor leader, known for shipping pragmatic solutions across startups and small teams. He blends front-end and back-end fluency—recently working with React, TypeScript, Flask, Python, Node, Postgres, and GraphQL—with a strong bias for mentorship and cross-functional collaboration. Drew has applied software to diverse, high-impact domains, from medical research and assistive tech to vehicle simulations and drive-assist testing, demonstrating a knack for tackling real-world constraints. Comfortable with many stacks (Angular, Meteor, Java, Ember, Electron, MongoDB, MySQL), he is process-agnostic and focused on outcomes rather than tools. Based in Hamden, he writes about his engineering and product thinking on his blog, and he enjoys turning long-lever software investments into tangible user value—sometimes by helping teams find the perfect camping spot.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Alabama
Saint James School Montgomery, AL
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Auburn University