$ cat about.txt
I'm a multi-hat product-minded engineering leader who lives at the intersection of product, infrastructure, security, AI and UX. Pragmatic by default: I ship what matters, measure outcomes, cut waste, and keep systems reliably boring where they should be - without slowing teams.
My experience spans from being a Principal Engineer at early-stage startups to CTO position at established products, always with a focus on building the right thing, the right way, while having fun in the process.
Grew revenue 3× to eight figures; slashed infrastructure costs by $2M+/yr - both in year one.
Led the design and shipped Ukraine’s national e-health platform used by 35M+ patients and 400K+ medical professionals.
Single-handedly operated legacy Elixir systems and infrastructure with peaks of 150K RPS across tens of services.
$ neofetch
Single-handedly owned ~20 high-traffic backends end-to-end (77 Elixir umbrella apps, 70+ Redis/50+ PostgreSQL instances) serving ~25k RPS with peaks to 150k for a 7-figure DAU product.
WireGuard-based replacement for legacy VPNs. Re-architected and developed key components of the enterprise product. Led infrastructure as code with Terraform on GCP. Open source, YC W22.
Co-designed and built the national platform behind reimbursements, EMR, e-prescriptions, and nationwide APIs for clinics and pharmacies. Led architecture, security, hiring, and hands-on Elixir + DevOps. All development open-sourced under Apache license.
Advertising platform for thousands of US automotive dealerships: ingests inventory, syndicates ads to major channels (at peak accountable for 30%+ cars on Facebook Marketplace), measures conversion, and collects leads to a unified interface with 24/7 human first-responder reps answering within 60 seconds.
AI models are powerful when you give them room to work, but that freedom comes with risks. I'm building these tools to let agents do their best work while keeping their access and actions under control.
Secure remote access for AI agents.
A zero-trust gateway connecting AI agents to your infrastructure. Give agents the tools to investigate incidents, manage deployments, and handle daily operations. Your team controls what runs, what needs approval, and what stays off-limits in one place.
$ testimonials --list --format=detailed
"I’ve had the pleasure of working directly with Andrew at Blitz, and he is one of those rare engineers who combines deep technical judgment with strong product instincts. Andrew operates at the intersection of product, infrastructure, and user experience, and that shows in how he approaches problems. He does not just optimize for elegance or novelty. He focuses on what actually moves the business forward. He ships what matters, measures outcomes, and keeps systems simple and reliable where they should be. ... Beyond the technical side, Andrew is thoughtful, calm under pressure, and great to collaborate with. ... I highly recommend him. "
- Naveed Khan, Head of Engineering
Blitz, Inc.
Managed Andrew directly
Thoughts on software engineering, distributed systems, and building products.
Customer-facing dashboards ask the same few questions all day, on data that's fine a few minutes stale - but every page load runs a live query against a warehouse that bills per query and was never built to sit behind a live screen. Here's the serving layer I built to move those reads onto cheap snapshots on my own infra.
Read more →Modern BMCs turned bare metal into something you can terraform apply: declare a node in git, reimage it over the network, verify it against a receipt. How our cloud-to-on-prem migration kept the cloud workflow - and why that's exactly what LLM agents needed.
Read more →AI agents got good at writing code - and they're still flying blind on your infrastructure, guessing at problems they can't see. The obvious fix is to hand them SSH and let them run wild. Here's why I didn't, and what I built instead.
Read more →$ whoami --personal
When I'm not shipping code, you'll find me on a squash or badminton court, chasing wind on a kiteboard, driving with no destination in mind, or deep into a gaming session. I love traveling to new places, binge-watching good TV shows (especially Sci-Fi), and winding down with a hookah. I also just like helping people.
$ palantir persons find . -name "Andrew Dryga" > contacts.txt
