Sebastian Andres
Principal AI Product Engineer at Xero
Gold Coast City, Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolSebastian Andres is a Principal AI Product Engineer with over a decade delivering cloud-native, event-driven systems and GenAI products at scale, currently transforming accounting at Xero. He blends hands-on engineering in .NET, TypeScript and AWS/Azure with strong people leadership—mentoring engineers, establishing reliability standards, and driving onboarding and experimentation programs that boost conversion and ROI. Sebastian has repeatedly modernized stacks and processes (Terraform IaC, containerisation, CI/CD improvements) to cut costs and increase velocity while preserving high code quality through pair programming and shift-left testing. Comfortable shifting between architecture, delivery coordination and hands-on coding, he’s known for turning complex distributed designs into pragmatic, evolvable implementations. Based on his history, he uniquely pairs developer-first culture change with measurable technical outcomes—bringing “joy back to developers” while shipping mission-critical systems.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
AWS Security Fundamentals (Second Edition) Security, AWS Security Fundamentals (Second Edition) Security at AWSManage People Effectively Business Management Marketing and Related Support Services, Manage People Effectively Business Management Marketing and Related Support Services at Australian Institute of ManagementGestão da Tecnologia da Informação Information Technology, Gestão da Tecnologia da Informação Information Technology at Universidade Paulista
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (124)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
sebandres/js-cqrs
Apr 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:25 commits, 16 PRs, 23 pushes in 8 months
event-sourcingcqrs
sebandres/url-shortener-azure-functions
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:46 commits, 8 PRs, 43 pushes in 12 days
url-shortenershortenerazure-functionsazure
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