Summary
Nicolás Andrade is a Senior Software Developer with 8+ years of experience designing and operating production-grade web applications and microservices, currently driving backend architecture and developer experience at Roofr from Waterloo, Quebec. He combines deep hands-on expertise in PHP/Laravel, Node/TypeScript, event-driven systems, PostgreSQL and AWS with a strong focus on service boundaries, permissions, and mission-critical features like invoicing and quoting. Previously a Tech Lead at SSENSE, he led an event-based pricing system and improved infrastructure, CI/CD, and observability across teams. His background includes security leadership as a Lead Code Auditor, giving him a pragmatic eye for secure, maintainable code and third-party risk. Colleagues rely on him to remove roadblocks, mentor engineers, and balance delivery speed with long-term maintainability — he also keeps a personal GitHub (github.com/nicoandra) for side projects and experiments.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Technical DCS / DEC Information Technology, Technical DCS / DEC Information Technology at EET N5 - John F. Kennedy
English, Spanish, French