Andrew is a Software Engineer with eight years of backend development experience, along with a specialized focus over the past two years on firmware and embedded systems. He has contributed to numerous open-source initiatives in Rust, and has a proven track record in designing and implementing asynchronous, low-latency firmware solutions. Notably, he played a key role in a Series-A startup now valued at over $100M. His creation of a compile-time-checked, graphable state machine library earned him a spot in a featured presentation at RustConf. Andrew blogs about his work at andrewgazelka.github.io.
Experience: 8 years
Yearly salary: $150,000
Hourly rate: $70
Nationality: 🇺🇸 United States
Residency: 🇺🇸 United States
Experience
Founding Engineer
Triple Axle 2023 - 2024
Worked on permitting and routing systems for trucking logistics
Software Engineer
Speechify 2023 - 2023
Improved performance of audio manipulation by 4x
Software & Firmware Engineer
Parallel Systems 2021 - 2023
Creator of no-std, compile-time-checked, graphable state machine library presented at RustConf 2022. Developed Rust firmware and created a real-time async runtime and primitives to enhance async development experience on STMH7xx chips in a bare-metal environment. Implemented telemetry systems and communication protocol over raw TCP and UDP sockets. Contributor to embedded-rust initiatives.
Full Stack Developer
ExperienceIT 2019 - 2021
Multi-million dollar company contracts for United Health Group, Anthem, and Scholarship America. Worked on Flutter apps, Angular frontends, and backend systems in NestJS and Java. Organized development effort and contributed to hiring decisions of software developers.
Founder, Full Stack Developer
OneShotMC 2015 - 2020
In-game shared hosting platform for Minecraft earning $45,000. Managed by team of around ten. Over 100,000 unique visits.
Skills
backend
c-plus-plus
python
rust
typescript
