# Andrew Hurle > Principal Software Engineer Location: Somerville, Massachusetts, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/andrewhurle 8+ years of experience in full-stack web dev as both a manager and an individual contributor, with a record of successful project delivery. ## Work Experience ### Principal Software Engineer @ Robin Jan 2025 – Present | Boston, Massachusetts, United States ### Staff Software Engineer @ Robin Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States ### Learning Sabbatical @ Unknown Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 • Made a personal website and developer blog at ahurle.dev using Next.js, React, TypeScript, and MDX • Contributed back to several open-source libraries via bug reports and (accepted!) pull requests ### Contract Software Engineer @ SmarterTravel Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Remote • Tech Lead for the reboot and rebrand of Hopjump’s hotel booking site as a SmarterTravel property • Architected new SMS/Facebook signup systems; coordinated work with one internal and 3 external devs • Fixed several extant show-stopping bugs, upgraded EOL software, implemented all backend Python logic • Achieved end-to-end functionality after 5 weeks, provided a detailed project plan for future work ### Lead Software Engineer @ Hopjump Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Cambridge, MA • Built Hopjump's main product - a hotel booking website - from scratch with one direct report. Migrated from Rails HAML/SASS to a React SPA with server-side rendering to enable UX similar to competitors. Grew the app to handle payments, customer service, advanced search criteria, a map-based UI, accounts and login, etc. • Hired two additional direct reports, Tech Lead on a team of 6 engineers in total, zero turnover during 3+ years • Tech lead for acquisition of SmarterTravel Media LLC from TripAdvisor. Transitioned 7 of their websites to Hopjump's infrastructure in 8 weeks, leading an expanded team of 9 engineers. All 80 Java repositories and 17 services from the acquisition re-deployed with zero downtime, securing a new revenue stream. • Led a team of 3 engineers in re-implementing a partner company's landing page over 6 weeks. Utilized Cloudflare Workers to reduce loading time by 60%, giving the partner a 5% conversion rate lift. • Prototyped and taught best practices across Eng/UX/Analyst teams to solve urgent business roadblocks. Topics included Kubernetes, FastAPI integration testing, React and its key libraries, Redshift DB performance. ### Lead Software Engineer @ Cognius Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Cambridge, MA • Improved Cognius’ various content sites along with a direct report. Scaled these sites for traffic and mailing needs, added HTTPS support, push notifications, and Facebook login. • Collaborated directly with CEO and CTO to productionalize a news aggregation website using Flask. • Facilitated Cognius’ pivot into the travel-focused company Hopjump by building a parser that scans a 100MM row/day data stream for users' intent to travel. ### Principal Software Engineer @ Cognius Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Cambridge, MA • Re-architected CTO’s MVP code into a greenfield Rails app to drive a new content-focused company strategy. Transitioned 7 websites to this new app, which grew to produce 20% of company revenue with server costs of just $50/day. • Was the sole developer on the project for 2 months, then acted as Scrum Master for one more developer and a Product Owner. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Cognius Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Cambridge, MA • Devised a type-safe domain-specific language using Ruby metaprogramming to build decision trees. This let a group of 5 analysts configure key business logic for email content. • Coordinated with executive staff to implement an automated revenue reporting system to cut checks to dozens of business partners, replacing hours of error-prone manual effort • Assumed ownership of 5 projects spanning 3 languages and 30K SLOC ### Software Engineer @ Cognius Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | Cambridge, MA • First engineering hire, reported directly to the CTO as the engineering team grew to 9 members. Became fully involved in the hiring funnel for new engineers, including the search for a future direct report. • Created a highly concurrent job search service using Scala and ElasticSearch that became central to the company's value proposition. The service fulfilled 30MM requests/day under 200ms latency and generated 80% of total daily revenue. • Maintained Rails web/email app that was Cognius’ initial revenue stream for its marketing and job search business • Performed several tricky migrations over terabytes of production data as we transitioned to a warehousing pipeline leading to Amazon Redshift, powered by Python microservices ### Front-end Software Engineering Intern @ Mozilla Corporation Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Mountain View, CA • Developed a multi-platform UX overhaul for Firefox’s autosuggest results, shipping to half a billion users • Adapted a color extraction algorithm for use with favicons in Firefox’s Windows 8 UI ## Education ### Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Worcester Polytechnic Institute ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/andrew-hurle - Portfolio: https://ahurle.dev/?utm_source=linkedin --- Source: https://flows.cv/andrewhurle JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/andrewhurle/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31