North Carolina, United States
About me.
I'm Andrea, a full-stack software engineer with 3+ years of experience. Away from the keyboard, you'll find me chasing waterfalls, on the jiu-jitsu mats, or out in the community with my Rotary club.
At work.
I build the parts people see and the systems behind them: scalable data architectures, centralized APIs, fast databases, and containerized deployments. I care most about reliability: systems that keep working when the data gets big, deployments that don't break on a Friday, and queries that stay fast at a hundred thousand rows.
I learn best by building, and this site is one of those projects: Laravel and React running in Docker, shipped through a CI/CD pipeline that won't deploy a commit unless its tests pass. What I pick up along the way, I share as insights.
Outside of work.
Outdoors
Chasing waterfalls
I'm happiest outside, and I'm working my way through North Carolina's 500 Waterfall Challenge, one trail at a time.
Brazilian jiu-jitsu
Blue belt
I train Brazilian jiu-jitsu and compete at least once a year. It's problem-solving under pressure, just with less typing.
Community
Rotarian
I'm a member of Rotary and spend a lot of my time on community service, giving back to the place I call home.
What I work with.
Back end & systems
- PHP (Laravel)
- Python
- Java
- PostgreSQL
- MSSQL
Front end & APIs
- React
- JavaScript
- HTML & CSS
- Bootstrap
- REST APIs
- SAML
- Third-party integrations
Data
- Advanced SQL
- CTEs & window functions
- Stored procedures
- Indexing & query optimization
- Data pipelines
- Azure Data Lake
Tools & infrastructure
- Docker
- Azure Container Apps
- AWS
- CI/CD
- Git & GitHub
- Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu)
- Cron jobs