Andrew Growney

Senior Software Engineer / Vantor / Westminster, CO

October 2021-Present

Architect and technical owner of Vantor’s Discovery API, the platform powering Vantor’s mission-critical consumer facing products, internal research workflows, and derivative geospatial product generation. Led the evolution of Discovery from a single product ingestion pipeline into a scalable multi-tenant platform securely indexing 100M+ global assets dating back to 1999 with fine-grained authorization control of public, private, and internal datasets. Designed and operated distributed discovery and ingest infrastructure handling thousands of new assets and real-time event notifications daily across 7 environments with 99.99% production API uptime. Operated as a cross-functional technical platform lead spanning backend engineering, infrastructure, security remediation, and modernization initiatives. Reduced our secure asset streaming p95 and p99 latencies by over 85% through architectural improvements to authentication flows, caching strategy, request orchestration, and internal integration collaboration. Designed and implemented a platform usage telemetry system that has enabled data-driven product improvements, deprecations, and migrations through real-time and historical analysis. Developed secure service credential management and secret rotation workflows for organization wide CI/CD systems. Designed and built developer workflows and deployment tooling for low-side development of network-isolated jobs. Selected to initial AI Champions cohort to help shape internal engineering standards for LLM usage, agent design patterns, and context management strategies.