Andrew Powell

Experience

25 Fathoms

Independent Contractor 2020 - Present (over 6 years)

Fulfilling various backend needs for engineering organizations, specializing in startups.
Platform, devops, and general backend engineering with focus on Node.js, TypeScript,
GraphQL,... more

Charlie Labs

Backend Engineer 2025 - 2026 (6 months)

Backend Engineer for AI Agent product with heavy emphasis on development with AI and specification authorship. Lead backend engineering with microservice architecture. Backend... more

Rally Space

Founding Backend Engineer 2023 - 2025 (almost 3 years)

Founding Backend Engineer for seed-stage startup. Leading backend engineering, systems architecture. Responsible for the entire backend stack, orchestration systems, new initiative... more

Openbase

Head of Backend Engineering 2021 - 2023 (over 1 year)

Head of Backend Engineering for seed-stage startup. Leading backend team, engineering, and systems architecture towards target growth KPIs. Ownership of the entire backend... more

Medly

Staff Software Engineer 2020 - 2021 (8 months)

Lead Engineer for the U.S. engineering org. Team leader, mentor, and career coach. Iterative, fail-fast environment. Platform ownership. Systems design and architecture for... more

Allergan Data Labs

Independent Contractor 2020 (11 months)

Architected and developed microservice platform with Node.js, GraphQL, Serverless, AWS Lambda, CloudFormation, DynamoDB. Leveraged Koa, Okta, and SAML for wide-scale
authentication.... more

Easy Metrics

Principal Software Engineer 2018 - 2019 (almost 2 years)

- Planning, development, and deployment of microservice architecture and legacy systems migration.
- Development of GraphQL APIs, replacement of existing REST services.
-... more

Exit

Gilt Groupe

Sr. Engineer 2013 - 2016 (about 3 years)

- Lead on shared, customer-facing and internal client-side components and platform features.
- Lead on in-house Node.js, web application framework (ES6 patterns, Koa.js,... more

Semantic Press

Sr. Engineer/Architect 2012 - 2013 (6 months)

- Front-end web development with patterns and technologies including: Node.js, Express, jQuery UI, RESTful APIs, dynamic data and evented application models. VSTO Excel/Office... more

appendTo Training

Sr. Engineer 2010 - 2012 (about 2 years)

- High-fidelity front-end web development implementing the latest technologies, patterns and techniques including: Node.js, Underscore.js, Backbone.js, Modernizr, AmplifyJS,... more

Vectorform

Web Engineering & Architecture Lead 2008 - 2010 (over 1 year)

Project management, codebase migration, and ASP.NET and Front End development specialty. Lead SAAS developer.

Stardock

Sr. Web Engineer & Software Engineer 2005 - 2008 (almost 4 years)

Project management and ASP.NET development specialties. Some MSSQL database admin sprinkled in. For what it's worth, the company is still using a custom forum system I wrote... more

Employee

Stardock, Vectorform, appendTo Training, Semantic Press, Gilt Groupe, Easy Metrics, Allergan Data Labs, Medly, Openbase, Rally Space, Charlie Labs, 25 Fathoms

Projects

Rollup.js

Core Team member. Core contributor. Official plugins lead.

Core Team, Node.js, Javascript · Next-generation ES module bundler. Contribute to rollup/rollup development by creating an account on… · More

Webpack

Core team member, webpack-dev-server lead

Core Contributor, Node.js, Javascript · A bundler for javascript and friends. Packs many modules into a few bundled assets. Code Splitting allows for… · More

Education

About

Achievements

Software Engineer with extensive remote / distributed teams experience as leader,
architect, and developer. Leadership, Backend, Integrations development emphasis. Past
full-stack development experience. Node.js specialist. Active Open Source contributor.

Describe the most impressive thing you've done.

Skills

Node.js Javascript Microservices HTML5 & CSS3 HTML CSS Research and Development Cloud Computing Google Cloud Platform MySQL MongoDB AWS/EC2/ELB/S3/DynamoDB AWS Lambda Webpack Rollup.js Express.js GraphQL/Apollo Docker Kubernetes TypeScript Koa REST Ruby on Rails jQuery Visual Basic CouchDB SAML Windows AJAX DynamoDB Ruby Microsoft IIS Angular.JS Nest.Js Backbone.js noSQL Amazon CloudFormation Svelte.Js GraphQL Microsoft SQL Server Mocha Mac OS PostgreSQL JSP Bash React.js Koa.Js Okta SQL AWS Git ASP.NET Serverless SQLite Scala CloudFlare Cloudflare Workers KV Cloudflare Serverless

Locations

New York City

Q&A

If money were not an issue, what would you be doing right now?

I'd start an offshore charter fishing company, hire a captain, and fish in the Gulf of Mexico at will.

Andrew Powell

Node aficionado. Aspiring Leader. TypeScript Wizard. Mostly backend. Sometimes full-stack. Nerd Generalist.

Software Engineer with extensive remote / distributed teams experience as leader, architect, and developer. Leadership, Backend, Integrations development emphasis. Past full-stack development experience. Node.js specialist. Active Open Source contributor.

Software Engineer with extensive remote / distributed teams experience as leader,
architect, and developer. Leadership, Backend, Integrations development emphasis. Past
full-stack development experience. Node.js specialist. Active Open Source contributor.