Jesse Andrews
Chief Technology Officer at Loopwork
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJesse Andrews is a seasoned technology leader and current CTO of Loopwork with 19 years of experience building scalable cloud and ML systems from prototype to production. He co-founded OpenStack and led the Nova compute project, bringing deep expertise in cloud APIs, authentication, and large-scale infrastructure that shows in long-running contributions to python-keystoneclient, nova, and horizon. At Replicate he drove ML tooling and MLOps improvements—speeding training of DreamBooth workflows and hardening model containerization—demonstrating a knack for turning experimental ML into reliable developer-facing products. His background spans startup founding (Anso Labs), product and platform leadership at Planet, and running high-traffic consumer services like Userscripts.org, combining hands-on systems engineering with people and process building. Based in Berkeley, he blends academic rigor (PhD work in CS) with pragmatic engineering across Python, Ruby, Rails, and cloud-native tooling, and often focuses on smoothing the developer UX around complex distributed systems.
18 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Mathematics, B.A. Mathematics at Berea CollegePhD in CS (incomplete) computer science, PhD in CS (incomplete) computer science at University of Kentucky
Github Skills (35)
container10
docker10
python10
apidoc10
back-end-development10
django10
command-line-interface10
configuration-management10
machine-learning10
authentication10
bash10
user-authentication10
dockers10
openstack10
api10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/python-novaclient
Aug 2011 - Dec 2013
OpenStack Compute (Nova) Client. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:29 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jesse primarily contributed to the OpenStack Compute (Nova) Client, focusing on the keypair API. Their commits involve adding and modifying code related to keypair creation, deletion, and listing. Furthermore, the user updated the client to align with changes from the `cloudbuilders/nova/os-keypairs` branch, and also included metadata management for images. This demonstrates a focus on core functionality and API integration within the Nova client.
pythonnovaopendevopenstackcompute
openstack/python-keystoneclient
Dec 2011 - Jan 2012
OpenStack Identity (Keystone) Client. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jesse primarily contributed to the `python-keystoneclient` repository by implementing and refining the client-side authentication flow, particularly focusing on the Command Line Interface (CLI) authentication. They modified several files, including `shell.py`, `client.py`, `v2_0/client.py`, and `v2_0/tokens.py` to align with the new authentication methods. Their work involved standardizing parameters such as `username`, `password`, `tenant_name`, and `auth_url`, and also included the removal and re-introduction of features like authenticating by token. Further enhancements included updating tests and handling service catalog management to ensure smooth API interactions.
opendevkeystoneidentityopenstack
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