About

Andrew Ehrlich is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer with over 14 years of relevant experience in the industry. He currently works at Chartboost as a Senior Software Engineer, where he is responsible for the AdServer team. Andrew's work involves coding new features, optimizing ad selection algorithms, reducing response times, and systematically cutting JVM heap usage using 100% Scala and Google Cloud Platform. Andrew's expertise lies in Unix Philosophy, Functional Programming, and Free Software. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Economics and Management with a focus on Environmental and Resource Economics from Cornell University. Prior to his current role, Andrew worked as a Software Architect and Principal Software Engineer at Centro. At Centro, he created a third-generation, real-time data platform on Confluent Event Streaming Platform (Kafka) that offered sub-second change capture latencies, Avro schema evolutions, and support for a new diverse set of data providers and data consumers across all Centro products. He also provided hands-on technical leadership for Scala and Python data pipelines and warehousing services on bare metal hardware running Cloudera's Hadoop platform, where he scaled the system for 3x growth in data volume. Andrew's tech stack includes Software Engineering, Scala, Kafka, and Hadoop. He is a highly motivated individual with a passion for creating innovative solutions that drive business success. Andrew is an asset to any organization he works with and is always eager to learn and grow in his field.