Andrew Nase
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
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
Experience
Availability
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
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.
Senior Solutions Architect
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.
Senior Professional Services Engineer
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.
Senior Lead Software Engineer
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.
Senior Web Developer
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.
Senior Software Developer
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%.
IT Manager
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.
Experience
Metalink
Kno Attribution App for Shopify
Cloudvo
https://cloudvo.comSkills
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
Education
Master's Degree in Computer Science
Lehigh University - Bethlehem, PA
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Eastern Nazarene College - Quincy, MA
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