Drew Kestell
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Round Rock, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDrew Kestell is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building backend services, distributed big data pipelines, and web APIs for the Power Platform at Microsoft using modern .NET and PySpark on Azure. He focuses on live-site reliability, monitoring, and low-level debugging/optimization, bringing a pragmatic engineering mindset to production-scale systems. Drew's background spans full-stack .NET development, architecting e-commerce solutions, and scaling an employee engagement platform from thousands to half a million users. He pairs a curiosity for reverse engineering and game development with strong operational instincts, often bridging product needs and system observability. Based in Round Rock, Texas, he blends hands-on coding with architectural thinking and a proven track record of improving performance, maintainability, and reliability.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Github Skills (12)
world-of-warcraft10
lua9
react5
discord-bot3
nextjs3
genetic-algorithm2
genetic2
skeleton1
python1
javascript1
highcharts1
rendering1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
DrewKestell/wren
Feb 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:213 commits, 224 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
DrewKestell/drewkestell.us
Jul 2018 - May 2022
My Personal Website
Contributions:3 PRs, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
reactnextjs
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