A Big Stick: Big Stick Ideology for code

Despecable: Intuitive, self-documenting API specifications for Rails

Budget Slacker: Slack + Google Cloud app for personal budgeting

Factory Burgers: Front-end UI + Middleware to discover and invoke FactoryBot factories, traits, and associations

nnjs (Ninjas): Web demo of neural networks

Descend: Web demo of gradient descent

StoresInMongo: Transparently bind SQL and noSQL records in ActiveRecord models

Various Open Source Contributions

Including Ruby, Datadog, ruby/rss, ViewComponent, pronto, CloudPosse, Ruby For Good

Software Architect » 3Play Media, 2019 - 2023 (present)

Team Growth ⋅ Ruby on Rails ⋅ React ⋅ GraphQL ⋅ CI/CD, Github Actions ⋅ Kubernetes

Launched and grew the Framework team, multiplying velocity across all dev teams
Improved team and cross-department efficiency with specific proposals to integrate Shape Up with existing process
Stepped up as PM and IC roles on a major infrastructure rebuild (k8s) to achieve elastic autoscaling
Guided multiple teams on architecture decisions to integrate tech after a 3-company merger
Designed and led business critical projects including Market Scaling and Control, Rails and Ruby upgrades, SSO integration
Directed Labs and Salons, lifting team engagement and adoption of patterns, practices, and tools

Senior Platform Innovation Engineer » Brain Power, 2019

AWS ⋅ Machine Vision ⋅ React ⋅ Serverless Applications ⋅ Scrum

Senior Software Engineer » Amazon Alexa, 2018 - 2019

NLP ⋅ Java ⋅ C++ ⋅ Scalable Architecture

Director of Engineering, Senior Research Engineer » 3Play Media, 2013 - 2018

Ruby on Rails ⋅ Python ⋅ R ⋅ Agile ⋅ Signal Processing ⋅ NLP

Promoted, hired, and managed team of seven engineers
Architected product backend to process thousands of hours of video content per day
Standardized video platform integration and API frameworks, the core order intake engines
Launched products including audio description, fingerprinting, and keyword extraction
Led technical meetings with global entertainment industry customers

Framework Team

Integrating a horizontal team into an established, product-focused roadmap
3Platform

How to completely overhaul your platform and CI/CD, and what it means to disagree and commit
Service Asset Workflow

Building and bequeathing a decade-stable core engine behind 3Play's internal processing
Git Filter

Reducing our git repo size 30x and syncing all developers' environment
Sticky Cookies

Firefighting intermittent session-based authentication issues post Rails 6 upgrade

Ph.D, Speech & Hearing, Bioscience & Technology

MIT + Harvard Health Sciences & Technology program, June 2013

Research and modeling of the auditory system, sound localization, the cocktail party problem

Inference & Information, Neural Coding & Perception of Sound, Auditory Signal Processing

Master of Science, Electrical Engineering

MIT Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, May 2010

Speech & Audio Processing, Discrete-Time Signal Processing, Communication Control

Bachelor of Science, Computer Systems Engineering

Boston University Dept of Computer Systems Engineering, May 2005

Andrew H Schwartz

Core Competencies