Andrew Kos Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Illinois, Us

New York, New York, Us

- Transitioned the team from falling behind to repaying debt and innovating by establishing team processes such as engineering on call, team demos, regular documentation improvements, and team retrospectives- Managed a team of 5 engineers working across 5 time zones from the US West Coast to Bulgaria- Mentored engineers on agile processes, team dynamics, and coached them towards their career goals- Reduced gaps and improving UX for an ML-driven document classification workflow by collaborating cross-functionally on new features and improvements- Reduced escalation resolution time by finding patterns in issues and sharing post mortems- Grew engineering capacity by acting as hiring manager for 3 engineering positions- Increased engineering new hire exposure to the company and product by leading a department initiative to update our onboarding program

Chicago, Illinois, Us

- Increased customer subscriptions through collaboration across teams and disciplines on the Growth team- Improved code quality and upgraded insecure dependencies through working groups I organized- Led a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion team, organizing company-wide presentations on Accessibility- Worked on a morale-boosting social team to plan fun events and team outings- Grew company culture by producing an internal podcast interviewing engineers from around the company- Simplified and improved our A/B testing system in partnership with the Data Science team- Increased visibility of features across the application through leading a team with 2 other engineers in implementing a tour framework that spanned Backbone legacy code, new React code, PHP, and Python

Chicago, Il, Us

- Fixed and built new modules for author-facing Angular and Django based CMS- Performed maintenance and bug triage across a number of high traffic sites- Worked with writers to turn their ideas into comedic reality online

Chicago, Il, Us

Implementation of Adobe CQ5 authoring environment for websites.

Stevens Point, Wi, Us

Production Support and Application Development in Java-based environment using Eclipse. Gained experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Spring, Struts and Hibernate.

Used Amazon Web Services API with Python to develop the prototype for a website for processing and analyzing genetic data.

C#.NET web development for several websites. Worked with Visual Studio development environment as well as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with jQuery.

Master Of Science - Ms, Data Science, Computational Methods

Bs, Computer Science