Andrew Miner's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

Sr. Software Engineer @ Microsoft Led the content creation team of six for Pivot (http://j.mp/ms-pvt), a sophisticated visualization tool for massive, multi-faceted data sets. After launch, developed a set of open source tools to allow anyone to create content for Pivot. [C#, .Net] From May 2009 to October 2010 (1 year 6 months) Bellevue, WAIntern @ Pitney...

Sr. Software Engineer @ Microsoft Led the content creation team of six for Pivot (http://j.mp/ms-pvt), a sophisticated visualization tool for massive, multi-faceted data sets. After launch, developed a set of open source tools to allow anyone to create content for Pivot. [C#, .Net] From May 2009 to October 2010 (1 year 6 months) Bellevue, WAIntern @ Pitney Bowes Developed a client/server protocol for delivering online updates to Integra mailing scales via FTP using MFC and C++ From June 1998 to December 1999 (1 year 7 months) Principal Software Engineer @ Boom Supersonic Envisioned, designed, and developed Boom’s aircraft design & optimization system. Coordinated with Aerodynamics and Structures teams to gather requirements, design features, and expand the system as the Overture program developed. [Python3, MATLAB, Docker, Swig, C++, CAD (various), Linux, Bash]Led a cross-functional team to create engineering deliverables for engine manufacturers.Led the recruiting effort for the internal Software Research team.Supervised and mentored aerospace engineers in software engineering & programming. From November 2017 to October 2019 (2 years) Greater Denver AreaFounder / CEO @ Redwood Labs Envisioned, designed, and developed a prototype of Graffer (http://j.mp/graffer), a single-page web app for rapidly exploring time-series data. [CoffeeScript, Backbone, D3, Node.js, Redis, Heroku]Designed and developed an online art gallery for Quent Cordair Fine Art (cordair.com). [Pug, Sass, AWS]Envisioned, designed, and developed Crafting Guide (crafting-guide.com), a single-page web app for Minecraft players. The site provides interactive step-by-step guides and wiki features backed by GitHub's API and S3. [CoffeeScript, Backbone, Node.js, Java, Heroku] From March 2014 to November 2017 (3 years 9 months) Los Gatos, CASr. Software Engineer / Team Lead / Designer @ Looker Devised a new front-end architecture for Looker and led a team of six in rebuilding the largest and most complex component of Looker's UI. [CoffeeScript, TypeScript, Angular, Reflux, JSData]Designed and developed a new algorithm for allowing users to interactively manage drag-n-drop dashboards. The algorithm detects collisions live during drag-n-drop and continuously calculates layouts that avoid overlapping tiles. [CoffeeScript, Karma, Angular]Designed and developed two new visualizations highly requested by Looker customers. Both offer novel approaches not found in other products. [CoffeeScript, Karma, Angular] From July 2015 to October 2017 (2 years 4 months) Santa Cruz, CAPrincipal Software Engineer / Team Lead @ Groupon Led a team of seven to rescue a deeply troubled iOS client/server app by taking ownership of DevOps. Scaled the system from barely handling 30 customers to routinely handling over 4,000 always-on connections. [iOS, Objective-C, Python, Django, Apache, HA Proxy, AWS, RightScale, RabbitMQ, MySQL]Built the first iPad Point-of-Sale client for Groupon customers within two months by adapting the iOS client/server framework built while at Kima Labs. [iOS, Objective-C, Ruby on Rails, MySQL] From February 2012 to March 2014 (2 years 2 months) Palo Alto, CAPrincipal Software Engineer / Designer @ Kima Labs Developed three ambitious e-commerce apps in two years on a team of two. Responsible for everything from product inception to UX design to launch across the entire stack for all three products. [iOS, Ruby on Rails, MySQL]Invented an automatic method (patented) to place orders with third-party web sites with a headless browser. [Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, PhantomJS] From November 2010 to February 2012 (1 year 4 months) San Francisco, CASr. Software Engineer @ Pelago Led a team of five to create one of the few apps to appear on the opening day of the iOS App Store. It included custom vector-based maps, picture sharing, and use of the GPS to interact with people and places nearby. [iOS, Objective-C, Java]Developed an interactive SMS app to augment the web-based app. Designed and developed a stateful SMS interface allowing customers to have a real conversation instead of just one-by-one commands. [Java, SMS APIs]Proactively developed a distributed build and deployment system as an extra project to help DevOps. [Linux Bash] From April 2007 to May 2009 (2 years 2 months) Seattle, WASr. Software Engineer / Team Lead / Manager @ Amazon.com Managed a team of three responsible for all customer-facing services in the transportation department, including: Shipment Tracking, International Direct, and Address Validation. [Java, C, C++]Led a team of four in a cross-functional effort with over 20 departments to enable Amazon to predict and collect international taxes. Also provided code contributions and architectural leadership. [Java, C++] From January 2005 to April 2007 (2 years 4 months) Seattle, WASoftware Engineer / Team Lead @ Beluga Software Led a team of five to create a web application for the WA Dept. of Fish & Wildlife genetics lab. Planned the software architecture and wrote code while mentoring other team members and planning work. [Java, J2EE] From July 2004 to December 2004 (6 months) Olympia, WASoftware Engineer @ IBM Led the team of three that documented sentencing rules for a new Department of Corrections system in WA state. Untangled three layers of legal requirements (department / state / federal) into a clear and unambiguous algorithm to implement in code.Developed improvements to the A.I. planning jobs in a client’s factory by combining genetic algorithms, simulated annealing, and other A.I. techniques to the point where forklift congestion was the limiting factor. [Java, C++] From July 2000 to July 2004 (4 years 1 month) Southbury, CT / Olympia, WAIntern @ Electric Boat Developed various scripts to perform text processing on the user's manual for the Seawolf-class submarines.Developed an inventory tracking system in MS Access for all computer hardware managed by the Tech Pubs department From June 1996 to December 1997 (1 year 7 months) Founder & CEO @ Pinery Labs Envisioned, designed, and implemented Runbooks (https://runbooks.app) Parker, CO