Andrew Edstrom is a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic and a Denver-based software engineer with ten years of experience who frequently operates as a technical lead across full-stack and backend systems. He is an active open-source contributor to infrastructure projects like Concourse—working on container lifecycle, observability, and db migrations—and has modernized pieces of CloudFoundry UAA. As an independent consultant he taught a highly rated TDD workshop, helped finance teams unblock delivery, and led a client engagement that reduced a painful task’s completion time by 75%; at Code for America he helped shrink a food-stamp application from 55 to 12 minutes for tens of thousands of users. He founded Modern Serial, building the entire product and stack himself with Python, Django, and Alpine.js, reflecting his blend of product thinking and hands-on execution. Known for improving developer productivity, observability, and team health, he pairs pragmatic delivery with coaching and systems-focused engineering.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
CloudFoundry User Account and Authentication (UAA) Server
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:1 release, 244 commits, 120 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Andrew focused on upgrading dependencies and refactoring code related to the CloudFoundry User Account and Authentication (UAA) Server. Their contributions included upgrading statsd to use log4j2 and Spring Boot 2. They also made assertions on what's important within the codebase and performed miscellaneous cleanup tasks, such as renaming variables for clarity, autoformatting, and removing whitespace.
Concourse is a container-based continuous thing-doer written in Go.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Contributions:73 commits, 1 PR, 18 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Andrew's commits primarily involve modifying the Concourse CI/CD system. They've worked on improving container tests, specifically related to hijacking and garbage collection within the system. Furthermore, the user contributed to emitting metrics for worker volumes, suggesting a focus on monitoring and observability. The user's work also included migrating versioned resource functions to dbng, demonstrating a contribution to internal system improvements.
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Andrew Edstrom - Member Of Technical Staff at Modern Serial