Andrew Nordman
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
Puyallup, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarAndrew Nordman is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with 16+ years building developer platforms, high-scale CI systems, and full-stack services across industries from AAA games to IoT brewing appliances. He blends hands-on expertise in JavaScript, Go, Python, Ruby, Rust and container/runtime orchestration with strategic leadership—driving multi-team initiatives that cut CI times from hours to minutes and scaled builds to hundreds of thousands of cores. Known for quickly mastering complex systems, he focuses on technical architecture, mentorship, and creating shared understanding to unlock productivity across large engineering organizations. An active contributor to the Ruby spec suite and a maker who codes for fun, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a manager’s clarity and compassion while operating from Puyallup, Washington.
16 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (14)
ruby10
spec10
test-suite10
lang10
mspec10
testing10
rubyspec9
dates8
timespan8
timed8
datetime8
timeago8
get-time8
datetimes8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ruby/spec
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
The Ruby Spec Suite aka ruby/spec
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:27 commits, 9 PRs, 23 comments in 11 days
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the Ruby spec suite by adding and modifying test cases. Their work included enhancing the `Dir` and `Integer` test suites, adding specs for methods like `Dir#empty?`, `Integer#digits`, `String#unpack1`, `Numeric#finite?`, `Numeric#infinite?`, and methods in the `Complex` class. Furthermore, they added and updated tests for the `DateTime` and `Time` classes, making it so tests properly reflect the proper Timezone preservation and the related functionality.
rubylanguage-specsmspecrubyspec
cadwallion/cadbot
Oct 2011 - Apr 2013
Contributions:59 commits in 1 year 6 months
botdiscord-bothuboton-top
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