Andrew Nase, Developer in Boyertown, PA, United States
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Andrew Nase

Verified Expert  in Engineering

Software Developer

Location
Boyertown, PA, United States
Toptal Member Since
September 24, 2021

Andrew is a passionate technology professional with experience in data science, cryptography, AI, blockchain, cloud automation, and DevOps. Andrew relishes the opportunity to delight customers with perfectly designed solutions to meet the needs of their business.

Portfolio

Nase Technology Solutions, Inc.
DevOps, Software Development, Software Engineering
Nuix
Ruby, Elastic, Apache Derby, Apache Lucene, Java, Python
Puppet
Puppet, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), AWS DevOps, Azure DevOps

Experience

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

MacOS, Linux, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Slack, Jira, Trello, GitHub, GitLab

The most amazing...

...thing I've developed is a Shopify app called Kno Attribution that has recently been featured in the Shopify App Store.

Work Experience

President

2000 - PRESENT
Nase Technology Solutions, Inc.
  • Developed applications on a freelance basis for clients. Focused primarily on the LAMP stack.
  • Began to hire developers as the demand became overwhelming. Grew the engineering team to a total of four trusted engineers.
  • Maintained the freelance business for over 20 years while also focusing on my W2 career.
Technologies: DevOps, Software Development, Software Engineering

Senior Solutions Architect

2018 - 2018
Nuix
  • Closed a deal worth nearly $10 billion TCV on the proof of concept I developed.
  • Rearchitected a SaaS platform from a monolithic architecture to a distributed architecture to support on-demand horizontal scaling.
  • Gave presentations at industry conferences about the company's new approach to deploying and supporting software within a CI/CD context.
Technologies: Ruby, Elastic, Apache Derby, Apache Lucene, Java, Python

Senior Professional Services Engineer

2015 - 2018
Puppet
  • Designed and implemented a complete CIS compliant security strategy for Splunk to enforce continuous compliance to CIS benchmarks.
  • Architected a global, high availability configuration management infrastructure with strict failure tolerance parameters to serve high-security use cases in the public sector. This project was delivered for IBM Global Business Services.
  • Wrote Puppet plugins to facilitate native APIs for EC2 metadata and other AWS-specific parameters.
Technologies: Puppet, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), AWS DevOps, Azure DevOps

Senior Lead Software Engineer

2013 - 2015
Cox Media Group
  • Retooled deployment pipelines to support rapid blue and green deployments.
  • Led two teams of engineers to deliver a platform redesign.
  • Acted as a release manager and liaison to business stakeholders.
Technologies: Python, JavaScript

Senior Web Developer

2011 - 2013
Lehigh University
  • Developed a mobile-first responsive front end for campus portal application.
  • Spearheaded migration project between major versions of the Luminis portal application (v4 to v5).
  • Taught extracurricular classes on Python, Ruby, RoR, and Python on Django to a mixed audience of students and staff.
Technologies: PHP, Java, CSS, JavaScript

Senior Software Developer

2008 - 2011
Smarter Travel Media, LLC (TripAdvisor)
  • Designed and implemented a retooled SEO strategy to increase organic search engine traffic.
  • Worked closely with marketing department on strategic initiatives to facilitate organic search optimizations to paid ad campaigns.
  • Oversaw object-oriented refactor during the upgrade from PHP 4 to PHP 5. This resulted in a net reduction of production bugs reported in the quarter after completion by 47%.
Technologies: PHP, JavaScript, HTML, Linux, Apache, MySQL

IT Manager

2006 - 2008
JD2 Environmental
  • Moved the company from physical paper compliance reports to records in a database with the ability to export to a digital report to print if desired.
  • Completed training in field operations of an underground storage tank and pipe inspection. Subsequently, I frequently went into the field to perform inspections and environmental remediation.
  • Secured and administered the corporate network and internal applications.
Technologies: MySQL, PHP

Metalink

A hub for NFT communities to communicate, collaborate, and transact, helping today's interest become tomorrow's investment. I acted as the front-end developer implementing various features such as advanced user search, direct messaging, and feeding.

Kno Attribution App for Shopify

An easy-to-use and powerful tool for better understanding which marketing channels are driving conversions. I was the full-stack developer working on both the front and back end, creating the embedded script and analyzing and visualizing the customer traffic.

Cloudvo

https://cloudvo.com
A web platform where you can access state-of-the-art workplace services for large or small companies on a subscription or pay-per-use basis. I acted as the full-stack developer to integrate various third-party APIs on the back end and build the professional UI using Vue.js.

Languages

JavaScript, Python, PHP, Bash Script, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java, CSS, HTML

Libraries/APIs

React, Vue, Node.js, Shopify API, Apache Lucene, Web3.js

Tools

Vault, Puppet, Terraform, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Amazon EKS, Elastic, Slack, Jira, Trello, GitHub, GitLab, Apache

Other

Software Development, Consul, Nomad, Web App Development, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), AWS DevOps, Professional Services, IT Consulting, Software Engineering, Ethers.js, Full-stack

Frameworks

Laravel, Express.js, Material UI, Next.js, Vue SSR

Platforms

Kubernetes, MacOS, Linux, Visual Studio Code (VS Code)

Paradigms

Data Science, DevOps, Azure DevOps

Industry Expertise

Bioinformatics

Storage

MongoDB, Apache Derby, MySQL

2012 - 2015

Master's Degree in Computer Science

Lehigh University - Bethlehem, PA

2000 - 2004

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Eastern Nazarene College - Quincy, MA

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