Andy Daniels

Overview

Director of Engineering at Wealthsimple, focused on developer tools. Cut p99 latency on the developer experience services from 527ms to 88ms. Most at home with CLI design and Rust. Parent of two, so mostly sleep-deprived.

Experience

1. Director of Engineering

   Apr 2024 - Present
   Wealthsimple · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Ottawa, ON
   • Moved 87% of developer experience traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
   • Mentored 12 engineers through their first promotion.
   • Brought on-call pages for developer experience down from 33 a week to 1.
2. Senior Software Engineer

   Mar 2022 - Apr 2024
   KPMG · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Ottawa, ON
   • Reduced cloud spend on developer experience by 32% in two quarters.
3. Software Engineer

   Jun 2018 - Mar 2022
   TD Bank · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Ottawa, ON
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 29 minutes to under 2.
   • Wrote the TypeScript service that now handles 72 million requests a day.
4. Software Engineer

   Mar 2016 - Apr 2018
   BMO · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Ottawa, ON
   • Shipped 8 launches on the developer experience team without a rollback.
5. Software Engineer

   Oct 2014 - Mar 2016
   Shopify · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Ottawa, ON
   • Cut p99 latency on the developer experience services from 768ms to 116ms.

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Education

1. Rotman School of Management

   MBA, Business Administration
   2015 - 2017
2. University of Waterloo

   BMath, Computer Science
   2010 - 2014