Thomas Andrews
Software Engineer (consultant, Part-time) at The Center for Effective Philanthropy
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolThomas Andrews is a pragmatic software engineer with 10+ years building reliable backend systems and data pipelines, currently consulting part-time for The Center for Effective Philanthropy from Cambridge, MA. He combines strong foundations in Java, Hadoop, SQL, and performance tuning with a mathematician’s rigor—favoring clear code, unit tests, refactoring, and thoughtful code reviews. His background includes productionizing speech-recognition pipelines, integrating audit persistence into Hadoop clusters, and optimizing threading and DB connections at scale. Comfortable across languages and stacks (PHP, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, PostgreSQL), he brings both hands-on implementation experience and a penchant for analytical problem solving. Colleagues rely on him to reduce technical debt and deliver auditable, well-tested solutions that stand up under heavy data and concurrency demands.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Arts, Mathemtics, Bachelor of Arts, Mathemtics at Yale University
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Github Skills (14)
algorithm6
html6
unit-testing6
css6
google-chrome6
math6
python6
code-organization6
shuffle6
java6
stackexchange-api2
api2
binding2
stackexchange1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
thomasoa/hand-evaluator-page
May 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:88 commits, 46 pushes, 9 branches in 1 month
thomasoa/IBBJS
Apr 2023 - Jul 2023
TypeScript version of The Impossible Bridge Book
Contributions:1 release, 20 PRs, 199 pushes in 2 months
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