About

Andy Gibson is a Contract Data Architect and Technical Lead with over 15 years of industry experience. He has a strong track record of designing, developing, and delivering robust, customer-focused solutions both as a developer within a team and in technical leadership roles. As a technologist, Andy has embraced both the traditional Microsoft .NET stack as well as many elements of open source libraries and components on Windows and Linux. He makes technology choices based on what is right for the team, what works best for the project goals, and trends within the wider software industry. As more companies seek to extract value from the data their IT systems contain, Andy's focus has shifted towards the complexities of building platforms capable of ingestion, transformation, and analysis of such data with cutting-edge technologies used across every business sector. He believes that software development at its core is about delivering value to clients and end-users, which has led him to favor pragmatism over perfectionism to achieve this. Andy's current position is Data Platform Architect at lumiradx, where he is responsible for designing and implementing data platforms that enable the company to extract value from its IT systems. He has also held leadership positions at source crafters limited and worked as a Full Stack Engineer at wood mackenzie. Andy holds a BSc (Hons) degree from the University of Dundee and an HNC from Dundee and Angus College. He is a Senior Software Engineer with 14.62 years of relevant experience. Andy is committed to staying up to date on modern tools, patterns, and practices, continually striving to learn new techniques for solving the complex problems faced in business today.