# Andrew Buchanan

> A well-rounded engineer looking to make the world a better place.

Location: San Mateo, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/andrewbuchanan

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Equilibrium Energy
Jan 2023 – Present

### Senior software engineer @ Allen Institute for Immunology
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, WA
• Back-end lead adding support for Plotly Dash apps for complex data visualization
• Led automation of dependency updates and standardization

### Software Development Engineer II at Kindle Vella @ Amazon
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, Stati Uniti d'America
• Led design and implementation of GraphDB-backed 10-million transaction per second containerized service for social features
• Identified and resolved repetitive requests within GraphQL calls resulting in 90% reduction in latency and dependency requests
• Implemented full-stack GraphQL/Spring + React site for customer service agents

### Software Development Engineer II at Amazon Author @ Amazon
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Seattle, Washington, Stati Uniti d'America
• Senior member of a 12-engineer team creating a new React/Scala site for authors to manage their global Amazon presence and for services vending that data throughout Amazon.
• Lead engineer investigating and cleaning up fraudulent accounts impacting thousands of authors and millions of customers
• Lead engineer investigating and resolving outages caused by end user browser add-ons targeting the site for scraping

### Senior Android Engineer at Goodreads @ Amazon
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco, California, Stati Uniti d'America
• Lead engineer responsible for the Android/FireOS app.
• Re-architected version one of the app, resulting in a 50% reduction in feature development time for most pages and a 85% reduction in the primary class of bugs seen in production.

### Senior Software Engineering Consultant @ Grio
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco, California, Stati Uniti d'America
• Senior engineer on a team of five working with Stitchr to deliver version 2 of their successful podcasting app
• With another engineer, architected and developed a puzzle game kiosk app for Sprint for Nascar fans to use at races
• Researched and implemented a web app for teachers to export their portfolios to DVD for certification requirements

### Software Development Intern @ Apple
Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 | Portland, Oregon, Stati Uniti d'America
• Implemented and improved a novel detail-preserving, parallelizable image denoising algorithm in Python, C, and Core Image Kernel Language (subset of GLSL)
• Wrote a Cocoa/Objective-C application to demonstrate the algorithm and coauthored a technical paper describing the technology as documentation for a possible patent

### Software Engineer & System Administrator @ ProtoLife
Jan 2004 – Jan 2008 | Venezia, Veneto, Italia
• Developed neural nets and molecular simulation research software
• Developed novel SDL & OS X confocal fluorescence microscope control software
• Sysadmin supporting website, email server and fileshare


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Filosofia
Reed College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/andrew-buchanan-83548a223

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Last updated: 2026-04-12