Andrew Hess
Backend Software Engineer at SigScalr
Helena, Montana, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Hess is a backend developer with nine years of experience currently building scalable server-side systems at SigScalr. Based in Helena, Montana, he blends hands-on engineering with a pragmatic focus on reliability, performance, and maintainability of APIs and services. He excels at turning ambiguous requirements into testable, production-ready backend features and troubleshooting complex distributed behaviors. Comfortable working across remote teams and time zones, he brings a steady, systems-oriented approach that emphasizes shipping value and reducing operational friction.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
California Institute of Technology
Stackoverflow
972reputation
27kreached
37answers
3questions
Github Skills (46)
monitoring10
observability10
distributed-tracing10
splunk10
newrelic10
go10
opensource10
opentelemetry10
logging10
eagle9
plover8
filter8
scripting7
desktop-application7
neovim7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
AndrewHess/siglens
Oct 2023 - Apr 2025
OpenSource Observability at 100x Efficiency
Contributions:14 PRs, 334 pushes, 507 branches in 1 year 5 months
siglens/siglens-docs
Nov 2023 - Feb 2025
Documentation repo for SigLens
Contributions:127 reviews, 57 PRs, 46 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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