John Andrews
Software Engineer at Root Insurance Company
Columbus, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Andrews is a seasoned software engineer with 15+ years of experience, primarily in the Ruby ecosystem since 2006, currently building products at Root Insurance in Columbus, Ohio. He has a strong backend focus—Ruby, PostgreSQL and distributed systems—and solid experience with JavaScript and Clojure from roles at LendingHome, Neo Innovation, and Braintree. Early work at Braintree includes building one of the first credit-card tokenization APIs and integrating with card networks, evidencing deep payments and reliability experience. He also explores niche technologies like Datomic and Elisp and has dabbled in iOS and Linux tooling, reflecting a pragmatic polyglot mindset. Known for moving between startups and larger firms, he combines hands-on implementation with system-thinking to deliver robust, production-ready services.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Ohio University
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Github Skills (75)
multithreading10
rack10
computer-music10
music10
pivotal-tracker10
azure-devops9
midi9
audio9
synth9
elisp9
puredata9
pivotal9
synthesis9
sound-synthesis9
npm9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Root-App/root-ruby-style
Aug 2019 - Aug 2021
Shared Rubocop Config
Contributions:14 commits, 13 PRs, 17 pushes in 2 years
rubyupstreamconfigrubocopsketchup
jxa/pivotal-tracker
Nov 2010 - Sep 2015
Emacs client for Pivotal Tracker
Contributions:14 commits, 8 PRs, 7 pushes in 4 years 10 months
elisptrackeremacspivotalpivotal-tracker
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