Andrew Tribone ⊕andrew@trib.one [andrew at trib dot one]
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Principal Software Engineer ⊕Feburary 2022 — Present
Volcano, HI

• Lead cross-functional teams in the planning, implementation, and deployment of multiple projects.
• Extended microservice catalog to include all types of infrastructure, e.g. databases and blob storage.
• Identified and optimized several inefficient query patterns created by Hibernate, in some case reducing the workload by 99%.
• Streamlined customer workflows by implementing automatic syncing of Cortex initiatives with Jira.

Distinguished Software Engineer ⊕September 2020 — December 2021
Volcano, HI

• Technical lead and manager of the entire engineering and product department, including IT.
• Participated in executive meetings and planning.
• Designed and implemented an efficient cron-based ETL framework using Python to manage complex data pipelines. The system enabled seamless extraction and loading from various technologies, including Athena, SFTP, MongoDB, S3, Redshift, and others.
• Leveraged ETL framework to design and implement a high-performance data ingestion and API solution for parcel tracking. The system processed tens of millions of ingestion events per month, and powered our consumer-facing tracking page.
• Streamlined the tracking process by eliminating manual intervention. Previously, data was extracted from carriers, pieced together, and manually published to our database.
• Extended tracking ingestion to include webhook notifications, by pushing ingested tracking data to third-parties and customers.
• Scaled API application (Node.js & MongoDB) to handle over 1000% growth year-over-year.
• Migrated web server and database from EC2 to ElasticBeanstalk and MongoDB Atlas, respectively.
• Spearheaded the implementation of structured logging utilizing Logz.IO for requests and general application logs. By leveraging these logs, I developed comprehensive dashboards and monitoring systems to detect and prevent system failures and outages, proactively identifying and resolving issues before they impact customers or partners.
• Managed and implemented SOC II gap analysis and remediation, to ensure that the organization meets security and compliance requirements.
• Open-source contributions to sqlalchemy-reshift, nock, and luxon-business-days.

VP of Product ⊕February 2020 — August 2020
San Francisco, CA

• Member of the executive team.
• Built and maintained strategic initiatives backed by a long-term product roadmap.
• Revamped the engineering and product departments by successfully implementing the Agile Scrum methodology, resulting in enhanced project timeline estimation and effective communication of expectations to the management.
• Operated as the product owner for the Infrastructure and US Carriers engineering teams. Major deliverables include application sharding and UPS Digital Access Program.
• Established regular communication with executives, and other stakeholders, regarding the roadmap and its progress.
• Developed a regular OKR process for the product management team and individuals to continue to assure a metrics-based approach and to drive career development.

Director of Product ⊕December 2018 — February 2020
San Francisco, CA

• Founding member of the Product Management organization at EasyPost.
• Implemented scalable internal processes for customer escalation management, internal and external feature requests, vendor reviews, etc.
• Improved existing products and built new market-defining products with a focus on making data-driven decisions.
• Recruited and trained a high-performing team of 10+ product managers and designers, with a focus on building a diverse and collaborative group. Developed and implemented initiatives to support their professional growth, including mentorship programs and training sessions.

Principal Software Engineer ⊕January 2018 — December 2018
San Francisco, CA

• Day-to-day operator of the Engineering team, head of technical support, and lead application developer.
• Built the first version of our warehouse management system, order management system and transportation management system. Deployed and operated in four warehouses across the country, shipping hundreds of thousands of packages per month.
• Scaled shipping API to support tens of millions of labels generated and hundreds of millions of inbound and outbound requests per month.
• Hired and managed, directly or indirectly, several dozen engineers.

Senior Software Engineer ⊕February 2014 — January 2018
San Francisco, CA

• Application developer focused on infrastructure related projects, e.g. service-oriented architecture, message queues, testing and software design.
• Introduced and scaled beanstalkd message queue that was responsible for processing hundreds of millions of jobs per month. Contributed to open-source projects related to beanstalkd.
• Deployed EasyPost’s first microservice, which grew to over 200.
• Contributed heavily to system monitoring through structured logging and statistics collection. Our ELK stack processed hundreds of millions of requests per day, and we collected thousands of distinct time series metrics.
• Guided planning and architecture of refactoring monolith in to multiple microservices.

Software Engineer ⊕January 2012 — January 2014
San Francisco, CA

• Lead project to create a generic data ingestion system from planning to implementation to maintenance.
• Facilitated Yelp’s purchase of Qype by ingesting all company and review data.
• Enabled partnerships with menu data providers to offer this data on the business pages of Yelp.
• SUpported Apple Maps integration with differential based data dumps of businesses and reviews using Elastic MapReduce.

BS, Computer Science⊕September 2007 — December 2011
Pittsburgh, PA