Drew Short
Platform Engineering Team Lead
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDrew Short is a Platform Engineering Team Lead with 11 years of experience building and maintaining backend systems for enterprise and product-focused teams. Based in Saint Paul, he has progressed through technical and leadership roles at Flywheel.io and UnitedHealth Group, shaping platform components that improve developer experience and scalability. Drew combines hands-on engineering with team coaching, guiding platform engineers to meet customer demand while standardizing shared services. His background stretches from JVM-based systems and custom testing tooling to cloud-native platform work, reflecting a practical focus on long-term maintenance and reliability. Ambitious to grow into project lead or senior system architect roles, he deliberately blends backend architecture with expanding devops expertise. A longtime practitioner of turning complex operational challenges into repeatable platform solutions, he brings both customer-facing perspective and deep operational empathy.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Information Technology, Computer Science, Database Design, Information Security, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Information Technology, Computer Science, Database Design, Information Security at Minnesota State University, MankatoComputer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Anoka Ramsey Community College
Github Skills (50)
matrix10
kaios10
delete-files9
uploads9
matrix-org9
homeserver9
otpauth8
arm8
collaboration8
python8
jdownloader8
cargo8
javascript8
perceptual8
uploader8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
warricksothr/concourse-rclone-resource
Jan 2020 - May 2020
A Rclone resource for Concourse CI
Contributions:73 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
concourse-ciconcourserclone
warricksothr/resume
Sep 2015 - Jul 2021
Contributions:37 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 10 months
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