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

nnjs (Ninjas): Web demo of neural networks

Descend: Web demo of gradient descent

StoresInMongo: Transparently bind SQL and noSQL records in ActiveRecord models

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

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

Founded and grew the Framework team, charged with multiplying velocity across all dev teams
Played PM and IC roles on a major infrastructure rebuild to achieve elastic autoscaling
Performed technical design and consults for a post-merger total tech integration project
Led business critical projects including Market Control, Rails 6 upgrade, and SSO integration
Handed off multiple large projects to other teams and ICs to maintain
Established and evangelized patterns used across teams, lifting velocity and quality throughout the org

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

Pinch-hitting as PM and IC across teams and companies on a pivotal infrastructure project
Service Asset Workflow

Building, auto-piloting, and handing off the 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