About

Andrew Tamura is a Senior Software Engineer at Smarking Inc. with over 9.71 years of relevant experience in software engineering. He has a passion for building compelling technology products that make a positive impact on people's lives. Andrew is looking for an engineering environment that embraces collaboration, continuous improvement, and rigorous engineering standards. Andrew's current role at Smarking Inc. involves leading software engineering initiatives, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and delivering high-quality software products. He has experience in building and maintaining complex systems using various technologies such as AWS, Javascript, Apache Airflow, Kubernetes, NodeJS, Redux, CI/CD, Docker, UI, Backend, Web, ECS, Spark, ML, Kafka, and Frontend. In his past role at Scoop Technologies Inc., Andrew built the Scoop Commute Dashboard, which is built using React, React Hooks, Redux, Redux-Saga, StyledComponents, Bootstrap, and Webpack 4. He was the primary point-person with the Backend Team for the API design, the Data Team for analytics events, UI/UX Team for web design and interactions, and Product team for end-user alignment. Andrew also built the "careers" page on the marketing site, featuring visualizations of employee demographics and postings for open roles, and the "Shift working" and "Time Preferences" features into the carpooler matching service. At ClearBrain, Andrew built a scalable feature engineering and machine learning pipeline, the marketing site, and a data ingestion pipeline that processes over 100 GB per day. He reduced AWS costs by replacing Kafka broker with batch processing ingestion, using spot instances for EMR clusters, using spot instances for Docker clusters, auto scaling EC2 Docker clusters, AWS cost allocation tags, and S3 lifecycle rules. Andrew holds a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He is open to new opportunities and can be reached at andrewtamura [at] gmail [dot] com.