Andy Gala

Software Engineer

Los Angeles, California, United States14 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in building scalable applications.
Created over 100 coding tutorials for technical interviews.
Proven experience in microservices and full-stack development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Full-Stack Developer with expertise in SaaS and AI applications.

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Skills

Core Skills

MicroservicesBackend DevelopmentFull-stack DevelopmentAwsFrontend DevelopmentAi Development

Other Skills

AIAPI DevelopmentAgile MethodologiesAlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)Back-End Web DevelopmentBackendCSSCascading Style Sheets (CSS)CircleCIClient PresentationData StructuresDistributed SystemsDockerExpress

About

Hey there, I’m a SWE with a strong background in building and scaling applications. Feel free to reach out here on LinkedIn.

Experience

14 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 4 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 5 mos

Current Experience

Atlassian

Software Engineer

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 5 mos · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Backend, Java, Spring, Jira, Microservices, Distributed Systems, Splunk

BackendJavaSpringJiraMicroservicesDistributed Systems+2

Youtube

Content Creator

Jan 2021 – Feb 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Full list of tutorials at:
https://youtube.com/@andygala888
Created over 100 in-depth video tutorials solving coding problems commonly encountered during technical interviews at FAANG/Unicorn companies.
Topics Covered:
Strings
Sorts
Arrays
Stacks/Queues
Linked Lists
Recursion/Backtracking
Trees
Graphs
Dynamic Programming

Open source

4 roles

Mauchly | Software Engineer | React, Node, Express, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS

Promoted

Apr 2020 – Feb 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos

Scaled microservice that handles reviews for a vacation rentals application.
Refactored and scaled a reviews microservice using only 3 AWS t2 micros, from 300RPS to 10,000RPS with 0.1% error rate and 95ms average latency time when querying a database with over 24 million records.
Engineered a chunking algorithm to populate 24 million records into an AWS t2.micro instance in under 10 mins.
Stress tested high traffic load using Loader.io, obtained performance metrics with New Relic, and implemented various mechanisms to increase traffic load including a caching system with Reids and Nginx as well as a proxy load balancer.

ReactNodeExpressPostgreSQLRedisAWS+2

Taniwha | Software Engineer | React, Node, Express, MongoDB, AWS

Feb 2020 – Apr 2020 · 2 mos

Proxy and Recommendations microservice for an eCommerce application.
Built a pixel-perfect clone of Etsy.com using HTML, CSS, Javascript, and React on the Frontend.
Integrated middleware and controllers to modularize the backend, resulting in a cleaner, more readable codebase.
Configured Webpack to consolidate assets, improved development time by enabling hot module reloading, and implemented minification which resulted in a 240% increase on Google Page Speeds.
Worked with a remote team of engineers, led an agile workflow, planned sprints, and used Trello for ticketing systems.

ReactNodeExpressMongoDBAWSFull-Stack Development+1

Speak To Me AI | Software Engineer | React, Node, Express, MongoDB, AWS

Feb 2020 – Feb 2020 · 0 mo

AI data analysis application that can be used to read the sentiment of product reviews, sales calls, speech, or text.
Conceptualized, built, and deployed a full-stack AI sentiment analysis application.
Leveraged the Google Natural Language API to precisely analyze the sentiment of any voice or text input.
Implemented BCrypt authorization and login functionality to store hashed passwords.

ReactNodeExpressMongoDBAWSFull-Stack Development+1