About

Andrew Brookins is a highly experienced Senior Software Engineer at Prefect, with over a decade of experience in Python and JavaScript web app development, database automation, DevOps, and product development. He is passionate about databases and is on a mission to help other developers build a meaningful career. Andrew's current role at Prefect involves working as a Software Engineer and Developer Advocate at Redis Labs. He splits his time between building data systems and helping developers make their apps faster with Redis. Andrew has built and manages a real-time website search API, produces YouTube videos and Redis University courses, gives talks, nurtures the Redis developer community, and advocates for developers to make their products better. Prior to joining Prefect, Andrew worked at IBM as a Senior Software Developer, where he was responsible for automating open-source databases like MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, Etcd, and JanusGraph for Compose.com and IBM Cloud Databases. He has led or worked on several major projects, including allowing customers to change database settings via API, scale CPU and RAM for databases via front-end, API, restore from backups, and pull monitoring data from via API. Andrew also built Kubernetes components and Python tooling that power IBM Cloud Databases' next-generation product. Andrew's technical skills include Software Engineering, Redis, Python, Javascript, DevOps, Web, Search, ETL, GCP, infra, Data Engineering, Kubernetes, MongoDB, Elastic Search, and Frontend. With 15.70 years of relevant experience, Andrew is a highly skilled and experienced software engineer who is passionate about databases and helping developers build a meaningful career.