About

Andrew Farrell is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer with over 9 years of relevant experience in the field. He is currently working at Simply Business in the same capacity, where he is responsible for developing and maintaining software systems that support the company's operations. Andrew has a strong background in software engineering, with expertise in Ruby, frontend development, Terraform, Redux, GCP, UI, Docker, MongoDB, Flask, and web development. Prior to joining Simply Business, Andrew worked as a Software Engineer at GoCardless, where he made significant contributions to the company's success. He co-wrote API tutorials with code examples in multiple languages to increase sales and decrease time-to-launch of merchant and partner integrations. Andrew also sequenced and implemented refactoring of transaction fee pricing logic in Ruby to win deals in a greater number of verticals and geographies. He ensured GDPR compliance under regulatory deadline by code-auditing handling of personal data to ensure both security and lawful basis for processing, and communicated clear-action plans among legal, marketing, and engineering teams. Before GoCardless, Andrew worked as a Software Engineer at Continuum Analytics, Inc. Here, he architected an open source web tool to spin up containerized pipelines for indexing and visualizing unstructured data. Andrew also constructed a user interface that let users create clusters of servers and deploy data analysis tools on those clusters to a MongoDB-backed flask app. Andrew holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he graduated in 2013. He also attended Shaker High School, where he completed his high school education in 2008. Andrew's technical expertise and experience in software engineering make him a valuable asset to any organization. He is a proactive problem-solver who thrives in fast-paced environments and is always looking for ways to improve processes and systems.