Andrew Kappen

Andrew Kappen has a diverse and extensive work experience spanning over several years. Andrew is currently working at Fastly as a Principal Software Engineer since March 2022. Before that, they held the role of Staff Software Engineer at Fastly from September 2019 to May 2022.

Prior to joining Fastly, Andrew worked as a self-employed Independent Contractor from November 2009 to September 2019, providing information technology services to various companies. Andrew'sspecialties included programming (specifically Ruby on Rails and Java), administration (servers, databases, continuous integration, staged deployments, etc.), agile methods, and domain analysis.

During this period, they also worked as a subcontractor at Haught Codeworks from November 2009 to September 2019.

Before becoming self-employed, Andrew was a Chief Scientist at Spry from February 2009 to November 2009.

Prior to that, they worked as a Software Consultant at TDP, Inc. and a Contractor at www.zavers.com from 2006 to 2008.

From 2004 to 2006, Andrew held the position of Software Engineer at RazorStream.

Andrew started their professional career as a Software Engineer at StreamWorks from 2000 to 2004 and later worked in the same role at CargoLargo from 1998 to 2000.

Andrew'searliest known position was as a Programmer at BlairLake New Media from 1997 to 1998.

Andrew Kappen attended The University of Kansas from 1990 to 1997, where they earned a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) and a Master of Science (MS) degree in Applied Mathematics.