Andy Hayden
Passion for finding simple and elegant solutions to complex problems.
Experience
2017 - : Chief Technology Officer, Altos Research.
- Oversee infrastructure and all product development.
- Ensure software engineers and their teams can iterate effectively.
2016 - 2017 : Principal Software Engineer, Altos Research.
- Automating weekly processes, simplified monitoring, using ASG and SQS.
- Simplifying/containerizing majority of stack from Opsworks to Elastic Beanstalk.
2015 – 2016 : Senior Software Engineer, Altos Research.
- Full-stack: Scala/Play, Angular, Postgres, Nginx.
- Responsible for web product: white-labelled real estate market reports.
- Designed and implemented the payment system using Stripe.
2014 – 2015 : Technical Consultant, Freelance (USA).
- Contract software development (specializing in building data tools).
- Teaching companies how to leverage python for data science.
- Led workshops on git migration/best practice, and leveraging continuous testing and deployment.
2013 – 2014 : Software Engineer and Data Scientist, Awesome Decision.
- Designed and implemented machine learning in decision flows.
- Back and front-end development using ruby-on-rails, angular, heroku, redis, and postgres.
2012 – 2013 : Lead Analyst and Technical Manager, Pierce Protocols.
- Using python - pandas, numpy, scikit-learn - for data analysis in the art market.
Education
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Master of Mathematics, First class with honours, University of Warwick.
Thesis: Lattice Stabilisers & Closed Orbits For SL(2, R) Actions On Translation Surfaces. -
A-levels, Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry, Esher College.
Self Learning
- Stack Overflow: 300k+ reputation, legendary.
- Udacity: Design of Computer Programs, Programming a Robotic Car, Web Application Engineering.
- Coursea: Functional Program Design in Scala.
- AWS: Solutions Architect Associate, Sysops Administrator Associate.
- Speaker: Python and Julia meetups to audiences of up to 300.
- Open source: previously pandas and julialang team member.
Other qualifications and awards
- Associate of the Higher Education Academy.
- Five Star White Water Leader (Kayak), British Canoe Union.
- Level Three Kayak Coach, British Canoe Union.
andyhayden1@gmail.com
415-595-8518 (c)
San Francisco, CA 94133
stackoverflow.com/u/1240268 • linkedin.com/in/ahayd • www.github.com/hayd