Andrew Mitchell

Amazon Web Services

Develop and maintain core node lifecycle functionality for EKS Auto Mode and OSS Karpenter, a widely adopted Kubernetes node autoscaler. Ship features, bug fixes, and automated test suites that impact hundreds of thousands of clusters, including EC2 health event monitoring for proactive detection of instance/system failures and a configurable do-not-disrupt grace period for temporary pod protection from node disruption. Authored and merged ~50 PRs across kubernetes-sigs/karpenter and aws/karpenter-provider-aws, and reviewed over 50 PRs from open-source community contributors. Resolve high-severity production incidents and continuously improve service observability as an active participant in 24/7 on-call rotations.

Engineering & Science Computing at Notre Dame

Provisioned and deployed enterprise hardware, including processing and imaging new laptops and desktops, managing asset delivery, and providing IT troubleshooting for faculty and staff.

Amazon Web Services

Enhanced production visibility for the ECS Fargate Agent team by implementing new availability metrics in Go. Built the Fargate Data Plane Availability Dashboard, synthesizing complex metric streams to enable on-call operators to rapidly root-cause issues across tens of millions of active instances.

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Scaled the DSN Telemetry Accountability Project under the Deep Space Network Emulator team, optimizing how telemetry data is tracked from spacecraft to JPL by generating records at specific venues along the path. Implemented multi-stream data handling capabilities in C, allowing the system to simultaneously process and validate distinct telemetry data types with zero data loss. Authored comprehensive technical documentation detailing the new multi-stream architecture.

Fountain Bowl

Solved customer problems and provided a clean and healthy environment at a local bowling alley.

Self Employed

Created and implemented lesson plans in various subjects for middle and high school students, teaching challenging topics in one-on-one tutoring sessions.