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Andrew Otto

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Principal Software Engineer at Wikimedia Foundation
📍 Brooklyn, New York, United States

Andrew Otto is a long-tenured Principal Software Engineer at the Wikimedia Foundation, having progressed through various systems and reliability engineering roles. He is a graduate of William & Mary with a Bachelor of Science. Colleagues describe him as focused and adept at problem-solving, especially under pressure.

His background includes significant involvement with the CouchSurfing project, where he started as a volunteer System Administrator in Thailand. This experience highlights a passion for travel and building online communities, having lived and worked within the organizations collectives for several years.

Unique fact: Before his professional career, Andrew was a volunteer sysadmin for CouchSurfing while living in their Thailand collective.

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Current Role
Principal Software Engineer
Location
Brooklyn, New York, United States
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Priorities

Topics Andrew cares about

Infrastructure Scaling
He has spent over a decade scaling infrastructure for the Wikimedia Foundation, one of the world's largest websites, and has spoken publicly on the topic at conferences like SREcon.
Site Reliability
His career progression includes several roles as a Site Reliability Engineer, indicating deep expertise in maintaining the stability and performance of large-scale systems.
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Career

Work history

4-2022
Principal Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation
1-2022 - 8-2022
Staff Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation
7-2020 - 1-2022
Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation
7-2016 - 7-2020
Senior Systems Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation
1-2012 - 7-2016
Systems Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation
In the press

Media appearances

Analytics at Wikipedia - Andrew Otto (Wikimedia Foundation), Fangjin Yang (Imply) - Strata Data Conference 2017. Featured in O'Reilly (Strata Data Conference)
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Analytics at Wikipedia – Andrew Otto (Wikimedia Foundation) – Strata Data Conference 2017 (Video). Featured in O'Reilly
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Education
2001 - 2005
Bachelors of Science
William & Mary
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