Hello World! My name is

Andrew Growney

I am a Cloud Services Software Engineer at Maxar Technologies in Denver, CO.

With a passion for people, sci-fi, physics, music, faith, coffee, college basketball, and software design

About

Working towards the title critical thinker before Software Engineer. I work on projects to help out friends, push my skills and abilities, expand my horizons, and have a lot of fun. After starting my career as a Software Engineer, I try to work with quality design and documentation at the forefront of each project I work on. Thinking about analytics and performance at scale is the biggest piece of that design. As I have encountered different problems, I have had to pick up new languages, learn new technologies, and study everything from data structures to algorithms to quantum mechanics. My experience has given me skills in, but not limited to these.

Backend
Kubernetes, AWS (API Gateway,EKS, Lambda, ECS, Route 53), Flask, Azure DevOps, REST API Design, Linux, C++, C#, .NET, Bash, SQL, Kafka, Prometheus, Azure Pipelines, Google Firebase, Haskell

Data Science
Python, Pandas, Numpy, Scikit Learn, Computer Vision, OpenCV, Tensorflow, Keras, ML Ops

Frontend
Javascript (ECMAScript 6), Node.js, React.js, HTML5 & CSS3, Electron.js

Work

Cloud Services Software Engineer / Maxar Technologies / Westminster, CO
October 2021-Present
Cloud Services Software Engineer for a geospatial imagery and analytics company. Principal engineer of the Object Detection Inference Storage and Serving System. Designed and implemented a full multi-tenant architecture for data ownership in a large product catalog. Reduced team's CI/CD build times by ~60% in Jenkins.
Software Engineer / Atonix Digital / Denver, CO
August 2019-October 2021
Platform and Analytics Team Engineer for Asset Performance Management SaaS Company. Manager and co-designer of AWS EKS Kubernetes cluster running multiple services across AWS Managed Node Groups. Principal designer of company's .NET Core AWS Lambda project template utilized by all teams and ten actively deployed functions. Developed multiple APIs behind AWS API Gateway using AWS Lambda Proxy Integrations and provided .NET Standard SDK and CLI to allow for ease of use. Assisted in migration of monolithic .NET Framework based TFVC repository to .NET Core and .NET Standard Azure Git Repos. Designed CI/CD pipelines for repositories holding Angular.IO applications and components, .NET libraries, AWS Lambda projects, and abstracted them to templates utilized in Azure Pipelines. Migrated in house build agent to AWS EC2 instance and reduced repository build time by 34%. Built an internal automated Nuget and NPM package documentation system using the Azure Devops REST API and AWS Lambda.
Software Engineering Intern / Cerner Corporation / Kansas City, MO
May 2018-August 2018
Developed 3 successful application components for Cerner Millennium Powerchart used by nurses and physicians in thousands of facilities worldwide as measured by approvals from full time associates and managers by using NodeJs, React based framework, and object oriented Javascript ES6 within an agile team using JIRA, Kanban, and Git
Blue Team Managerial Staff / Archdiocese of Kansas City, KS / Williamsburg, KS
Summer 2015-Summer 2017
Managed, scheduled, and mentored staff of 80 college students with over 2000 camp participants. Responsibilities included developing curriculum, training of staff, and other duties as directed by the camp directors
Owner / Growney Landscaping / Overland Park, KS
April 2010-May 2015
Financed first car purchase and 100% of college costs by creating and operating an independent full-service lawn care venture for 9 clients throughout Middle School and High School years

Projects

Ray: Raspberry Pi Assistant
February 2020 - Present
Digital Personal Assistant, inspired by J.A.R.V.I.S., that uses speech recognition and an API hosted on local network to manage basic tasks and scheduling.

Python, Rasa NLU, IPC, Houndify API, Tensorflow, CLI, Flask, Django API
Hip Hop Genius
Oct 2018 - Dec 2019
A project focused on lyrical analysis of Hip Hop artists. Shows artists usage of words and phrases over time. Utilizing AWS Lambda for testing the Genius API daily.

Python, AWS Lambda, Web Scraping
DITI Early Detection of Breast Cancer
Jan 2018 - May 2019
Our senior capstone project was a continuation of a physics research project. Working with PhD students and medical researchers in Europe to use thermal imaging to detect breast cancer.

Python, Computer Vision (OpenCV), Statistics, Digital Image Processing
DITI Image Metadata Classifier
Jan 2019 - Mar 2019
Using only image processing data from our DITI Early Detection of Breast Cancer project, we worked on implementing a few different classifiers to check predictions

Python, Scikit Learn, Machine Learning, Data Science, Pandas
SELF Skill Sessions
Jan 2019 - May 2019
Created a reddit system for the KU SELF Program to use for creating group sessions

Google Firestore, Javascript, React.js, Bootstrap, CSS
andrewgrowney.com
March 1, 2019
Challenge to build and deploy fully functioning website in 6 hours. Using React and AWS, successfully designed, built, and deployed all in one day.

Javascript, React.js, AWS Route 53, AWS S3, React-Bootsrap, CSS
March Madness ML
March 2021 - Present
Machine learning

Python, Scikit Learn, Pandas, Tensorflow

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