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Andy LeClair

Andy LeClair

Principal Engineer at Appcues

Principal Engineer at Appcues

North Yarmouth, Maine, United States🇺🇸
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Principal Engineer

Appcues

Full-time · Remote

Dec 2023 - Present

Backend Principal, overseeing all engineering org backend initiatives

Phoenix FrameworkElixirClickHousePostgreSQLApache KafkaEctoSQLAmazon Web Services (AWS)Liveview

Staff Software Engineer

Appcues

Full-time · Hybrid

Jan 2019 - Dec 2023

Platform Team Lead

ElixirEctoSnowflakeSQLPostgreSQLLiveviewPhoenix Framework

Senior Software Engineer

Appcues

Full-time · On-site

Aug 2017 - Jan 2019
ElixirPhoenix FrameworkEcto

Senior Developer

Simply Business

Greater Boston Area

Dec 2016 - Jul 2017

Señor Software Engineer

Tapjoy

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Oct 2012 - Oct 2016

Project lead on Deployboard, an on-demand integration and development server creation tool. Project lead on Test Chamber, an internal integration testing framework for validating large scale system changes. Contributor to Chore, a pluggable, scalable, Ruby job processing system (https://github.com/Tapjoy/chore). Created and maintained Chef cookbooks to support various services. Ported critical product code from Ruby to Go. Maintained experimental RTB processing system for integration with Google AdX. Engineered and maintained CI infrastructure based on Jenkins. Port CI infrastructure from Jenkins to Travis CI. Provided support for reconciliation investigations, including interfacing with external partners. Completed 6 months on the Ops team, including handling pager duty and developing critical tooling. Provided major support for upgrading core product application from Ruby 1.9 to 2.3. Upgraded core product application from Ruby 1.8 to 1.9. Engineered internal reconciliation report generation tool, with pluggable fuzzy parsers. Developed system checks internal monitoring framework built around Sensu.

Software Engineer

Promoboxx

Boston, MA

Nov 2011 - Sep 2012

Engineered horizontally scalable web API. Developed API client libraries that powered Promoboxx core applications and features. Developed frontend Javascript to power slick UI. Developed animated SVG/VML widgets for visualizing client data. Implemented backed admin interface for managing client data and user accounts. Invented the company drink.

Lead Mobile Web Developer

Where, Inc.

May 2011 - Nov 2011

Full stack engineer, jQuery frontend code, Rails backend code. Implementing services in jRuby on Rails. Developing API wrapper gems. Head of mobile website development, heavily using jQuery Mobile

Engineer

WRBB 104.9FM Boston

Jan 2010 - May 2011

I fix things when they're broken! I also teach newbies how to use the radio station equipment.

Software Developer

Where

May 2010 - Jan 2011

I worked on the Web Team of Where, creating Where 3.0 for the web. I did Rails backend code, packaged gems, created internal APIs and did some front-end code in jQuery

Software Engineer

Intuit

Jun 2009 - Dec 2009

I worked on the Interview Services team developing tools and services for Launchpad, the shiny new version of Turbo Tax. I also worked on a new product called BizLaunch which should be released soon.

Software Developer

CoreStreet

Jan 2008 - Jun 2008

Developed frontend and backend code to support several CoreStreet products, such as PIVMAN Client for Windows and a server module for Microsoft Certificate Authority.

Education1

Northeastern University

BSc, Computer Science

Sep 2006 - May 2011

Activities / Societies: WRBB Engineer Dean's List

Skills53

Technical

Apache KafkaOTPPhoenix Framework

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Agile MethodologiesAlcoholic BeveragesAmazon Web Services (AWS)AshBallisticsChefChronic PainClickHouse
Cloud ComputingConsensus BuildingDistributed SystemsEctoElixirEndorsementsErlangFace RecognitionFrontPageGitGreaseJavaScriptLiveviewMagic: The GatheringMentoringMobile ApplicationsMobile DevicesOil & GasPostgreSQLProgrammingPuch mopedsRepresentational State Transfer (REST)RESTRubyRuby on RailsSerato Scratch LiveSleep DisordersSlottingSnowflakeSoapsSoftware ArchitectureSoftware DesignSoftware DevelopmentSoftware EngineeringSQLTeam LeadershipTequilaTest Driven DevelopmentTwo-stroke enginesUser InterfaceUser Interface DesignWeb Development

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