Andrew Thomson

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Founder

Sharepod

Jul 2024 - Current (2 years 1 month)

Sharepod is democratizing access to professional quality voiceover work.

Engineering Manager

Adobe

May 2016 - Nov 2024 (8 years 7 months)

2020-Current: Senior Engineering Manager for Intelligent Experiences Team Leading a cross-functional team in partnership with Adobe Research and Adobe Experience Platform Engineering to build AI-enhanced user experiences. Projects: Auto Mapper: AI-powered data import tool. Schema Recommendations: AI-powered Extensible Data Model (XDM) schema authoring tool. Chart Captioning: Makes Adobe Experience Platform dashboards more accessible with text descriptions of graphical data. Chart Recommendations: Automated charts for tabular data in AEP Dashboards and AEP CoPilot. Auto Tagger: Automatically classifies web page URLs to aid in site analytics. Adobe Journey Optimizer (AJO) Generative Content: Allows email marketers to add generative art and c

Engineering Manager

Livefyre

Jan 2012 - Dec 2016 (5 years)

Engineer / Engineering Manager Lead infrastructure development for Livefyre, a User Generated Content platform company. Responsible for maintaining Livefyre's fleet, managing costs, and developing self-service tools to enable engineers to provision, deploy, and maintain their services. As a tech lead and manager hybrid, I split my time between operations, software development, and people management. Projects: Reorganization: Transitioned the team from a pure Operations team to a Development Operations team. Cost Savings: Reduced AWS hosting expenses by almost 50%. Scale: Oversaw provisioning and planning for Livefyre through rapid growth. Accountab

SDE II

Amazon

May 2009 - Nov 2011 (2 years 7 months)

Engineer on Cloudfront and Route53. I was focused on scalability and performance improvements, writing code in C/C++/Perl. Projects: Invalidation: Designed and implemented Cloudfront Invalidation allowing customers to invalidate specific objects from the cache. Cooperative Load Balancer (CLB): Allowed Cloudfront to increase cluster size by improving the scale of our home grown software load balancer. Global Monitoring: Implemented a global mesh health check system to identify transit issues. Capacity Prediction: Created a cluster load KPI which was used in capacity aware request routing. Build-out: Partnered with operations to deploy several new Cloudfront clusters.

SDE

Microsoft

Sep 2007 - May 2009 (1 year 9 months)

Engineer on Windows NT Filesystem team. I wrote filesystem and Minifilter device drivers for Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008R2. Projects: Simrep: Wrote an example driver for handling reparse points on Windows NT. Name Changer: Prototyped a filesystem path virtualization tool. Plugfest: Helped organize Windows Plugfest for the Windows 7 Beta.

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