# Andrew Maskiell > Full-Stack Software Engineer, with a slight lean towards Frontend | full-time Cat Dad Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/andrewmaskiell As a software engineer, I bring to the table the unorthodox experience of being a classically trained musician; I find that experience has well-suited me for this career in which... - you're constantly improving your skills while learning new ones - attention to the smallest details is a necessity - remaining cool-headed under pressure can be the deciding factor in minimizing impact of (or entirely avoiding) an outage However, I'm also someone who doesn't take themselves TOO seriously; I'm always looking to infuse fun wherever I can into my work, trying to brighten the day of those around me. It's exceedingly and increasingly rare for me to take comments or feedback personally and who has learned that laughing at yourself is an effective first step in learning from and moving through mistakes. I feel very fortunate to have been able to transition from a musician/stage-manager to software engineer and am incredibly grateful for the relative success I've had in doing so. My love and passion for music is what drove me to pursue a degree in it and that same love and passion is what fuels me now with software. Among other things, you'll find that I'm: - diligent, yet light-hearted - intense, yet compassionate - a life-long learner - more interested in the team's success than my own - always trying to help others when I can, especially in helping to mentor engineers and designers who are new to the space I'm not always the best at responding on LinkedIn but if you're thinking about reaching out, please do; I'm a pretty nice guy. πŸ™‚ ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Berkshire Grey Jan 2025 – Present | Bedford, Massachusetts, United States [as contractor through Alexander Technology Group] ### Software Engineer @ Pluralsight Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Spearheaded effort to retrofit legacy frontends into platform rewrite using Module Federation - Mentored and guided growth of junior engineers and interns - Architected, built, and developed UI for Practice Exams using React, Storybook, and Jest - Worked on the Skill IQ assessments product - As tech lead, managed and contributed to development of the My Skills tab - Collaborated on feature development and maintenance of Python backend, utilizing packages such as FastAPI, Uvicorn, Pydantic, SQLAlchemy, Boto3 - Actively wrote and improved backend tests using pytest and frontend tests using Jest and Testing Library - Helped maintain native Kafka producers and consumers using Confluent's Kafka Python Client - Led migration and refactoring of legacy frontend code for Skill IQ experience - Drove early adoption of Pando design system library - Created cron jobs to trigger alerts for issues in data integrity between PostgreSQL database tables and reflected tables in Snowflake ### Software Engineer (MTS) @ Salesforce Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 - Took ownership of the creation and documentation of the Flicker Defender gear - Built several global templates for the new Campaign and Template system - Deploy, review, and contribute code for Interaction Studio’s Developer Documentation built with Gatsby.js - Implemented the redesign of UI screens using Angular 1.5 and KendoUI as part of the release for a major feature - Led weekly office hours to facilitate quickly training support agents ### Software Engineer (AMTS) @ Salesforce Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 ### Support Engineer @ Evergage Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Greater Boston Area ### Engineering Apprentice @ Upstatement Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Boston, MA Involved with: - Complete rebuild of Center for Public Integrity's site - Contributing to Upstatement's site Skills/Responsibilities: - Configured complex web scraping robots to migrate thousands of articles and metadata during a content migration - Extensive use of regular expressions to address a variety of issues in migration process - Studied site taxonomy structure in order to make information architecture recommendations - Wrote efficient, object-oriented PHP for integrating with WordPress - Created front-end templates in Twig - Communicated directly with clients throughout project - Followed agile practices, including daily stand-ups, weekly check-ins, and point estimations for tasks - Adhered to best practices in using Git for source control - Assisted senior engineer with writing unit tests for internal Vue.js app Additional: - Published 'Composing Code' post on Upstatement's medium blog ### Full Stack Web Developer @ Flatiron School Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area An intensive training program designed to equip students with the skills necessary to launch careers in web development. This program includes over 800 hours of coursework, encompassing lessons, labs, study groups, individual and pair programming projects, code challenges, portfolio project presentations and more. β€’ Studied a variety of web development languages, frameworks, and libraries in-depth, including Ruby, Rails, Sinatra, Javascript, React, Redux, SQL, ActiveRecord, Git, HTML, CSS and Bootstrap ### Part-time Stage Manager @ Boston Symphony Orchestra Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Greater Boston Area Positions held with BSO: - Stage Assistant (Tanglewood Music Center) from June 2014-August 2014 and June 2015-August 2015 - Assist in managing rehearsals, concerts, and events - Assemble rental instruments and taking inventory of equipment in each space - Aid other lighting and sound specialists with setup of their particular equipment - Assistant Stage Manager at Seiji Ozawa Hall (Tanglewood Music Center) from June 2017-September 2017 - Responsible for overseeing all rehearsal spaces used by TMC fellows and events in Ozawa Hall - Coordinated schedules of crew with needs of aforementioned spaces and events - Attended meetings and communicated with other operations managers to ensure proper information is gathered and distributed - Personnel Manager (Tanglewood Music Center) from June 2016-August 2016 - Responsible for documenting and ensuring attendance of fellows at designated rehearsals, concerts, and events - Handled travel reimbursement requests - Documented and managed loaning of auxiliary instruments to fellows ## Education ### Full Stack Web Development Program Flatiron School Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 ### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Viola Performance Eastman School of Music Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/andrew-maskiell - Website: https://waitwut.xyz/resume/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/andrewmaskiell JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/andrewmaskiell/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22