Andy Pritchard

Overview

12 years in software engineering, the last 3 at Rolls-Royce, where I lead the Android team. Mentored 4 engineers through their first promotion. Took crash-free sessions from 97.4% to 99.9%. Most at home with Snowflake and Kotlin.

Answers in batches on Fridays

Experience

1. Senior Engineering Manager

   Dec 2023 - Present
   Rolls-Royce · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Birmingham, UK
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 43 minutes to under 2.
   • Built the experimentation framework 28 product teams use to ship changes safely.
   • Cut p99 latency on the Android services from 703ms to 64ms.
2. Staff Android Engineer

   Jan 2022 - Oct 2023
   Wise · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Birmingham, UK
   • Took crash-free sessions from 97.4% to 99.9%.
   • Wrote the Kotlin service that now handles 72 million requests a day.
3. Android Engineer

   Apr 2019 - Jan 2022
   Booking.com · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Birmingham, UK
   • Took crash-free sessions from 96.3% to 99.8%.
   • Moved 95% of Android traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
4. Android Engineer

   Apr 2017 - Apr 2019
   ASOS · 2 yr · Full-time · Birmingham, UK
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 44 minutes to under 2.
   • Reduced cloud spend on Android by 28% in two quarters.
5. Android Engineer

   Jun 2014 - Dec 2016
   Ocado · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Birmingham, UK
   • Cut p99 latency on the Android services from 454ms to 174ms.

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Education

1. Durham University

   BA, Information Technology
   2010 - 2013