Garrett Edwards
Senior Lead Software Engineer at DraftKings Inc.
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolGarrett Edwards is a Senior Lead Software Engineer based in Boston with 10 years of experience building reliable backend systems and infrastructure, currently leading engineering efforts at DraftKings. He progressed through multiple engineering and leadership roles at DraftKings after earlier platform work at Eagle Investment Systems/BNY Mellon, demonstrating an ability to scale both codebases and teams. Garrett contributes to open-source, notably improving graphql-java by fixing input recursion bugs, hardening schema diffing, and adding tests—evidence of a strong focus on API correctness and maintainability. His background spans development and QA automation, giving him a pragmatic appreciation for testing, refactoring, and production stability. Trained in computer science at RIT, he pairs rigorous engineering fundamentals with hands-on delivery in high-throughput, consumer-facing systems.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (15)
javas10
graphql10
graphql-java10
mstest10
wpgraphql10
teste10
wordpress-graphql10
java10
jtest10
testing10
apidoc9
api9
design-patterns6
splinter6
python6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
graphql-java/graphql-java
Apr 2019 - Jul 2019
GraphQL Java implementation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 8 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Garrett's contributions primarily focused on improving the GraphQL Java implementation. Their work involved refactoring existing code to fix input recursion issues and improve code maintainability. They also added tests to validate schema changes and ensure the integrity of the GraphQL API. The user also contributed to the schema diff functionality, adding the ability to categorize deprecated differences.
javagraphql-javagraphql
grrttedwards/aaa-website
Oct 2016 - Oct 2020
Site for AAA Police Supply
Contributions:8 PRs, 33 pushes, 7 branches in 4 years
adobe-experience-managerloadtestingpoliceaaasupply
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