About

Andrew Freeman is an execution-driven, agile software developer with a proven talent across multiple technical disciplines. He has extensive experience in the design, development, and deployment of enterprise systems through all software development life-cycle phases with Ruby, Java, and C# using agile methodologies. As an experienced leader, Andrew delivers solutions by aligning technical and business strategies within scope, time, and budget by creatively employing all available resources. He thrives on turning around projects and moving legacy applications forward. Andrew is a proactive and result-oriented leader adept in mentoring and motivating teams to exemplary performance. He has a strong focus on continuous learning and exploring emerging technologies. Andrew's specialties include Engineering & Organizational Leadership, Continuous Delivery/Continuous Integration, Optimizing development workflows, Mentoring Junior Team Members, Architecture, Design & Development, and Languages such as Java, Groovy, Ruby, JavaScript, C#, SQL, PL/SQL. Currently, Andrew is working as a Software Developer MTS-2 at PayPal, a global e-commerce business for online payments, money transfers, and credit. He is responsible for developing features for the credit underwriting system using Java and Spring Boot. Additionally, he has developed virtualized development infrastructure and continuous integration infrastructure using GCP. Prior to PayPal, Andrew worked as a Software Development Manager at BoxTone Inc., an Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) company for iPhone, iPad, Android, and BlackBerry devices. Here, he directed and mentored UI and CM team for 6 aggressive time to market product releases focused on Apple Mobile Device Management (MDM). Andrew also worked as a Senior Solutions Architect at i4thought, where he developed Ruby on Rails, Java, and Jasper Reports solutions for Ontario Court of Justice. Andrew holds a B.S. in Computer Science from East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania and an A.S. in Computer Information Science from Montgomery County Community College. Andrew's tech stack includes Software Engineer, SQL, Java, Puppet, Ruby, Spring, Senior Software Engineer, CI/CD, Jenkins, Docker, Spring Boot, Integration, infra, Javascript, Bamboo, MySQL, Mobile, Backend, test, MongoDB, GCP, qa, ui, and Web. He has 24.71 years of relevant experience.