Andy Boothe
Verified Expert in Engineering
Back-end Developer
Andy is a seasoned and award-winning software architecture, software engineering, and data science leader and individual contributor. Specializing in building and growing teams to create scalable, distributed, cloud-native data back-end platforms and applications for internal and external audiences, he looks forward to helping clients build and grow business-critical data and analytic infrastructure.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
MacOS, Linux, Java, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
The most amazing...
...platform I've developed is the AOS internal analytics tools platform that powered projects worth an estimated $100 million in revenue over 12 years.
Work Experience
Chief Architect
Real Chemistry
- Designed and implemented the AOS platform, the primary internal analytics and data science tools platform that powered Real Chemistry's award-winning analytics offering, and then built and led a software engineering team to improve and maintain it.
- Built Real Chemistry's data science team to grow analytics services offering, improve the efficiency of analytics project execution through automation and machine learning, and increase analytical sophistication of project deliverables.
- Coordinated internal analytics, data science, and software engineering teams to design and build analytics products, such as SocialGraphics, Magic 8 Ball, and COR COVID Communications Center, winning multiple SABRE, MM+M, and PRWeek awards.
- Partnered with leaders throughout the company to evangelize analytics and data science internally and with clients to develop business.
- Led multiple analytics projects for high-profile clients such as Procter & Gamble, Pfizer, Intel, Warner Bros., Red Bull, and more.
- Received various industry awards, such as the 2018 Holmes Report Innovator 25 Americas, and published peer-reviewed research in journals such as JMIR Perioperative Medicine.
Head Solutions Architect
Innovate Texas Foundation
- Collaborated with the foundation's leadership to influence the economic development policy of the State of Texas.
- Led a small team to collate and publish economic development tools and information to promote economic growth in the State.
- Mentored technology startups as part of the foundation's technology incubator.
Software Engineer
IBM
- Designed and implemented the authentication subsystem for the xSeries Advanced Management Module firmware.
- Implemented a Linux 2.6 kernel module to improve memory usage tracking of embedded processes by accounting for virtual memory page sharing via page fault trapping.
- Optimized the performance of WebSphere Business Monitor and published the results in the annual WebSphere performance report.
Experience
AOS Analytics Tools Platform
The core technology is a microservice orchestration engine implemented as a proprietary programming language, AiryScript, compiled to a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG), which coordinated a home-grown data streaming platform with Hadoop jobs to collect and process data. The application predated Apache Beam, Airflow, and other modern productivity tools by several years.
A team of more than 100 internal analysts used the platform daily to deliver projects worth an estimated $100 million in revenue over 12 years.
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Languages
Java, SQL, Python, Embedded C, PHP, HTML, CSS
Other
Software Development, Software Engineering, Software Architecture, Distributed Systems, Commercialization, Data Analytics, Data Engineering, Firmware, SVG, Machine Learning, Science
Frameworks
Dropwizard, Hadoop, Jersey
Paradigms
REST, Event-driven Architecture, Data Science, Java Performance Optimization
Platforms
MacOS, Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Embedded Linux, Webflow, AWS ALB, AWS Lambda
Libraries/APIs
JAX-RS, Amazon Rekognition, React, jQuery
Tools
Amazon CloudFront CDN, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Sabre Global Distribution System
Storage
SQL Performance, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon S3 (AWS S3)
Education
Master of Science Degree in Technology Commercialization
University of Texas at Austin - Austin, Texas, USA
Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science
University of Texas at Austin - Austin, Texas, USA
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services
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