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Andy LeClair

Andy LeClair

Principal Engineer at Appcues

North YarmouthMaineUnited States🇺🇸
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Career: 11

Appcues

Full-time · Remote

Dec 2023 - Present

Backend Principal, overseeing all engineering org backend initiatives

Phoenix FrameworkElixirClickHousePostgreSQLApache KafkaEctoSQLAmazon Web Services (AWS)Liveview

Appcues

Full-time · Hybrid

Jan 2019 - Dec 2023

Platform Team Lead

ElixirEctoSnowflakeSQLPostgreSQLLiveviewPhoenix Framework

Appcues

Full-time · On-site

Aug 2017 - Jan 2019
ElixirPhoenix FrameworkEcto

Senior Developer

Simply Business

Greater Boston Area

Dec 2016 - Jul 2017

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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First Game!

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Dev Server

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Live Fridge

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OpenGL Part 3

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OpenGL Part 2

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GLtest

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README

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Hello world!

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Skills: 53

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Amazon Web Services (AWS)Apache KafkaCloud ComputingDistributed SystemsElixirErlangGitJavaScript
Mobile ApplicationsOTPPhoenix FrameworkPostgreSQLProgrammingRepresentational State Transfer (REST)RESTRubyRuby on RailsSoftware ArchitectureSoftware DesignSoftware DevelopmentSoftware EngineeringSQLTest Driven DevelopmentWeb Development

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Agile Methodologies

Creative

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Interpersonal

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Alcoholic BeveragesAshBallisticsChefChronic PainClickHouseConsensus BuildingEcto
EndorsementsFace RecognitionFrontPageGreaseLiveviewMagic: The GatheringMobile DevicesOil & GasPuch mopedsSerato Scratch LiveSleep DisordersSlottingSnowflakeSoapsTequilaTwo-stroke enginesUser Interface

Education: 1

BSc, Computer Science

Sep 2006 - May 2011

Activities / Societies: WRBB Engineer Dean's List

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