About

Andrew Pendleton is a Senior Software Engineer at Sofar Ocean, where he leverages data from the company's ocean data sensor fleet to make maritime navigation more efficient. He specializes in backend engineering and is a language enthusiast who enjoys working on algorithms to make global location search faster. With almost 15 years of relevant experience, Andrew has worked with top companies in the tech industry, including Mapbox and Sunlight Foundation. At Mapbox, he was an Engineer on the Search team, where he was the senior-most engineer on Carmen, the company's in-house geocoding engine. His work centered on backend performance optimization, with a particular focus on text-processing-related data structures and algorithms. Andrew led the transition of much of the computationally intensive infrastructure within Carmen from C++ to Rust, and he also worked on sourcing translation data and improving the company's multilingual search infrastructure. Before joining Mapbox, Andrew was a Web Developer at Sunlight Foundation, where he built web applications to promote government transparency and accountability. Andrew holds a degree in Computer Science from The George Washington University, where he studied from 2004 to 2008. His tech stack includes software engineering, backend development, search, infrastructure, and web development.