About
Hi, I'm Andy Schneider, a University of Calgary software engineering graduate, currently at Shopify!
I love spending time on personal projects or making games as a part of 90% Studios!
My mission is to have fun creating cool stuff, from games to greenhouses and everything in between.
Stats
What would be on my hockey card:
- Favorite languages: Go, Ruby, TS, C#, Python
- Other languages: C++, PHP, SQL, Java, English
- Favorite Sports: Hockey, Backpacking (is backpacking a sport?)
- Favorite Fruit: Apples
- Subs or Dubs: Subs
Resume
Software Developer
2022 June - Present
Shopify
Calgary, AB (remote)
Primarily frontend development with React+TypeScript on an agile team
Development with Ruby+Rails
TypeScript, React, GraphQL, Ruby, MySQL
Game Developer
2018 January - Present
90% Studios
Calgary, AB
Programming and designing games as part of an indie duo
Created Panel Royale in Unity, a battle-royale match-3 game with 100+ MAU
Helped build the underlying inventory and character interaction systems for Cool Kid Cody and Purrfect Apawcalypse (RenPy)
Full Stack Software Engineer, E.I.T.
2019 June - 2022 May
Circle Cardiovascular Imaging
Calgary, AB
Facilitated efficient regular meetings and cross-team communication as a (certified!) scrum master on an agile team of 5-10 developers creating a reporting web application
Built deployment-specific customizations of the product using Docker for OEM sites with unique constraints (host OS, server availability limitations)
Developed new frontend features in Angular + AngularJS based on user feedback, including report headers, user list, automated citations
Became the subject matter expert in localization, streamlining the process for updating translations and supporting the product in new languages
Migrated a backend data ingress pipeline from PHP to Go, utilizing TDD
Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular, PHP, MSSQL, SQLite, Jira, TeamCity
Technical Support Contractor
2020 February - 2020 June
Partake Brewing
Calgary, AB
Safely migrated live WordPress e-commerce site with 3000+ customers to Shopify, improving support and customer experience (PHP, Ruby)
Developed tools to analyze user funnels of buying patterns to guide marketing campaigns. E.g., validated that buying sampler packs leads to subscriptions :D
Bachelor's Degree, Software Engineering
2014 September - 2019 May
University of Calgary
4.0
Specialization in biomedical engineering
MicroProcessinG (MPG) - PCB soldering, embedded systems development
Bennie Vorster Memorial Scholarship in Software Engineering
APEGA Past Presidents' Gold Medal in Software Engineering
Governor General's Academic Silver Medal
Software Engineering Intern
2017 May - 2018 August
Garmin International
Cochrane, AB
Optimized the optical heart rate algorithm with a genetic algorithm approach (C++, Python), increasing accuracy on Garmin’s fitness wearables
Developed a C# application for visualizing effects of algorithm changes on heart rate calculation accuracy
Implemented a wireless PID motor controlled test fixture in C for evaluating optical heart rate hardware, reducing manual engineering test time by 90%
Undergraduate Researcher
2016 May - 2016 August
Applied Electromagnetics Group
University of Calgary
Piloted an independent project utilizing C++/Qt and Python which measured and visualized the signals and interference in an array of microwave antennas
Friends
A few cool people with an online presence I want to give a shout out to!
Denny Truong
Denny is a super skilled artist, designer, game developer, musician, and writer! We make indie games together as 90% Studios! She created Cool Kid Cody, the Purrfect Apawcalypse Series, and did all the artwork for my baby, Panel Royale. Follow her on twitch or bluesky to keep up with all the evil things she's working on!
