About

Andrew Dirksen is a seasoned Senior Software Engineer with over 9 years of experience in developing mobile libraries, terabyte data pipelines, and server-side services. He is currently working at Zynga, where he is responsible for building and maintaining high-performance software systems. Andrew's expertise lies in full-stack development, and he has worked extensively with Android and iOS platforms. He is a skilled programmer who has contributed to the development of several SDKs, including the native iOS and Android SDKs for Scientific Revenue. Andrew's contributions to the SDKs resulted in a significant reduction in binary size and method count, making customer integrations less complex while maintaining backward compatibility of server protocol. Andrew has also architected and implemented real-time event source data pipelines that handle 100M requests daily. He has contributed to the deployment and maintenance of services inside AWS, writing scripts to handle software deployment, testing data consistency, and data pipeline processing reports. He has also implemented disaster recovery procedures for distributed databases and supported a team of data scientists with advanced SQL and data-related questions. Andrew holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of the Pacific. He is a skilled software engineer with expertise in SQL, AWS, mobile development, and integration testing. Overall, Andrew is a highly proficient Senior Software Engineer with a strong background in building scalable and high-performing software systems. He is a team player who is passionate about solving complex technical challenges and delivering quality software solutions.