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Andrew Dai

Technical and organizational problem solver, cloud and database knower

Experience

Current Job

Senior Software Engineer San Francisco, California (Hybrid) July 2023 - present

  • Repeatedly improved CI latency: Docker builds, Typescript build tooling, optimizing deploys, restructuring tests

  • Led key production-readiness initiatives including OpenTelemetry trace collection and shaping on-call practices

  • Solved show-stopping performance bottlenecks in system, intra-service, and database levels

  • Developed and promoted continuous delivery principles, project management, and roadmapping processes

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Consultant Remote January 2023 - present

Twitter

Senior Software Engineer San Francisco, California and Remote August 2022 - January 2023

  • Mentored team of four junior engineers, including coaching on incident response and retrospective best practices

Meter

Software Engineer San Francisco, California and Remote June 2021 - July 2022

  • Led implementation and aided design of core next-gen control plane infrastructure and services (configuration, RPC protocol, message bus)

  • Entirely rebuilt continuous integration system (>2x faster, same cost, more self-serve)

  • Socialized best practice team, process, and project-organizing techniques by leading a book club and discussion group

  • In-house PostgreSQL expert and de facto Terraform/AWS owner

Heap

Software Engineer, Data Platform San Francisco, California and Remote January 2018 - May 2021

  • Spearheaded adoption of Golang and worked on modernizing legacy codebase via service and API-first approach

  • Owned a petabyte-scale PostgreSQL cluster — improved reliability by >10x, query performance by >2x, saved millions $/year, and led backend development of new analysis features, including Path Analysis

  • Also a blog post author, open source contributor, AWS spend watcher, and DEI advocate. I also onboarded my entire team, and interviewed ~90% of new grads in 2019 and most engineering management

Square

Intern San Francisco, California and Remote Summer 2017, October 2017 - January 2018

  • Updated tools and utilities for host maintenance, application monitoring, and deployment configuration management

Applied Predictive Technologies

Intern Washington, D.C. Summer 2016

  • Migrated core SQL Server schema and launched new analysis homepage

InterSystems Corporation

Intern Cambridge, Massachusetts and Remote Summer 2015, Sept 2015 - Mar 2016

  • Designed and developed a full stack web application for bug and feature tracking using Angular.js and Caché ObjectScript

Education

Georgia Institute of Technology

Atlanta, Georgia August 2014 - May 2018

Bachelors of Science in Computer Science with Highest Honors and a minor in Sociology

  • Research: Developed novel data visualizations at the Information Interfaces Lab under the direction of Dr. John Stasko

  • Volunteer: HackGT Director. Raised over $250,000 in funding for events with over 1,000 attendees and started event for local high school students

Skills