Hi! I'm Andy, an experienced software engineer and people manager.

Originally from Glasgow (Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿), I now live in Haarlem (The Netherlands 🇳🇱) with my partner, our two dogs and cat.

Experience

I'm passionate about building great teams and great products. Some places I've worked previously:

Oda - Norway and Sweden's largest online grocer
Edumundo - Dutch online education platform & publisher
Swipii - Card-linked loyalty app
Skyscanner - Travel meta-search
Conscia / SystemC - Software for Health and Social Care sectors
Amor Group - Software development and consultancy for Education and Government

I've used these languages, frameworks and products at some point over my career:

Python, C#, Java, Typescript, Kotlin, Swift, Ruby on Rails
Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure
Postgres, Snowflake, DBT, SQL Server, DynamoDB, Couchbase, Redis, MySQL
RabbitMQ, SQS, Kafka, Samza
Iterable, Sendgrid, Twilio, Firebase Cloud Messaging, Braze, AppsFlyer
Growthbook, Amplitude, Mixpanel, Sanity
Docker, Git

Find out about some of the projects I've been involved in here. Looking for help with a project? Get in touch!

Library

Some tech related books and blogs I've enjoyed reading and recommend for engineers:

The Pragmatic Engineer (Blog) by Gergely Orosz
The Beautiful Mess (Blog) by John Cutler
The Manager's Path by Camille Fournier
Leading Effective Engineering Teams by Addy Osmani
Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim
The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt