# Andre Newland > Software/Data Engineering | Ribbon Health Location: Bronx, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/andrenewland ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Ribbon Health Jan 2020 – Present | Manhattan, New York, United States At Ribbon, we’re building the infrastructure to transform billions of care decisions. Our data platform fuels healthcare enterprises with actionable provider information, including insurance coverage, prices, and performance. By partnering with Ribbon, you can empower people to make the most informed decisions about their care by finding trusted, affordable providers. Together, we can create a healthier future where people receive exceptional care. In my role as an engineer, I build out functionality to improve our data and distribution infrastructure, advocate for technical excellence and a strong engineering culture in order to give us the scale we need to power every healthcare decision to be accessible, affordable and high quality. ### Data Science For All / Empowerment Fellow @ Correlation One Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | New York City Metropolitan Area Data Science For All / Empowerment offers the best data analytics training in the world. The program, taught by instructors from top universities like Harvard and MIT, is an immersive 13-week (Saturdays only) training program in practical data skills with a 6% acceptance rate for the first cohort. ### Co-Founder and CTO @ Tarseer Inc Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 At Tarseer we are developing an accessible platform to reliably collect information on the eye to deepen understanding of eye function and structure and allow for the detection and monitoring of diseases. Lead Engineer and architect of a 100K+ lines codebase, of which I contributed 101K+ additions and 48K+ deletions Developed a modular framework to enable rapid prototyping of visual field algorithms with functionality to enable workflows across multiple hardware components Performed extensive research on eye tracking technologies, visual field testing devices, and visual field testing algorithms to inform the design and patent of an accessible headset Raised pre-seed investment by pitching and winning the Tufts 100K Ventures, Ricci Milva Prize, and Startup Nation Competition (2nd place), McGinnis Venture Competition (3rd place) Tested 100+ patients in hospital; Boston Globe’s Class of 2017’s MVP Entrepreneurs; Most Disruptive Technology Award from the Yuzz Santander Bank Incubator and attended Madgera Incubator in Israel ### Infrastructure Data Platform Engineer @ Foursquare Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Greater New York City Area Online/offline data-infrastructure - (mongo, kafka, redis, rocksdb) + (hadoop, luigi, hive, scalding, presto, redshift, kerberos, aws EMR). Data pipeline management and maintenance. Implementation of monitoring and dashboards for various parts of tech stack; including kafka, luigi, and hdfs. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Foursquare Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 Assisted in the engineering of a highly distributed key value store, built on Kafka, Redis, and RocksDB. Transitioned a resource heavy portion of the Foursquare platform to use said key value store. I made changes to the existing key value store to allow for automatic updates of configuration; which further eliminated the need to check the codebase. I researched RocksDB and Redis to assist in design decisions regarding key value store creation. I was the sole engineer who implemented RocksDB in Scala, accompanied by layers of RPC’s allowing for services to query appropriate data. I created automated and web interface tests to ensure the implementation for the data stores was correct. Throughout the summer I also employed Twitter’s Future API in order to process delayed data requests. ### Software Engineering Intern Foundational Applications @ Bloomberg LP Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | 731 Lexington Ave New York, NY 10022 Participated in a 10 week R&D internship program, learning about a company at the intersection of finance and technology. Discovered all aspects of the company through attending intern speaker series. Received on-the-job training to enhance programming skills and gained familiarity with Bloomberg system. Full stack end to end development for a function on the Bloomberg Terminal. Collaborated with users and developers in order to formulate a better workflow and design. ### Junior Developer and Game Design Intern @ Hidden Level Games Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 Hidden Level Games created a medium for people of all ages to learn how to code in the form of a platform game creator. During my second summer interning at the company I was given the task of creating and designing an interactive bushiness dashboard. This bootstrapped dashboard hit a mongo database and used jinja to automate processes necessary to display vital information to clients. In conjunction with the companies mission I assembled a content driven interactive learning environment. I accompanied the founder to several schools and organizations in which we taught fundamental programming principles. In addition these tasks I continued to software tests, debugging, and quality assurance. ### Junior Developer and Game Design Intern @ Hidden Level Games Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 Worked as a backend python developer. Provided game design advice, performed extensive testing and provided quality assurance for the product. At the end of the summer I helped facilitate a tutorial workshop in partnership with Black Girls Code. ### BOLD Symposium @ Google Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 Day-long seminar aimed to teach how to identify, promote, and utilize personal brand; while learning how to create and leverage network with peers and advisers. ### Summer Training In Astrophysics Research Skills Intern @ American Museum of Natural History Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Central Park West & 79th St, New York, NY 10024 (212) 769-5100 I was selected for competitive placement in the Astrophysics Department of the American Museum of Natural History. At which point I participated in an intensive introductory workshop on physics computer programming. I spent one summer during 2012 and 1 month during 2013 working with a team researching Gravitational Microlensing Occurences. My project, along with a fellow intern, was to perform data analysis in order to predict Microlensing Occurrences in the near future. I spent my summer writing scripts in both Bash and Python in order to parse human readable files, send extracted data through a astronomical reduction and analysis API, and compile a list of predictions. ## Education ### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science Tufts University ### High School Hackley School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/andre-newland --- Source: https://flows.cv/andrenewland JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/andrenewland/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-20