Andy Bevan
512.496.4833

Engineering leader and hands-on architect with 20+ years of experience designing, modernizing, and securing enterprise-grade systems. Expert in .NET, C#, AWS, and Azure with a strong focus on identity, authentication, and authorization platforms. Proven success leading distributed teams, driving cloud security initiatives, and delivering high-performance systems that meet compliance and healthcare data protection standards. Passionate about secure access, IAM, and resilient microservice architectures.

Experience

Principal Software Engineer
February 2024
 — 
Present
CareMetx
  • Served as architect and individual contributor on strategic projects — maintaining deep technical expertise in C# and .NET 9, ASP.NET, PowerShell, TypeScript, JavaScript, SQL, and cross-language integrations with Python and Java services.
  • Mentored 70 engineers in system design, cloud architecture, and coding best practices, guiding career growth while raising technical proficiency and enabling teams to take ownership of complex services.
  • Directed development of an 800K-patient / 20K-practice portal built on AWS microservices, enabling modular deployments, reducing maintenance effort, and sustaining 99.99% uptime.
  • Defined and enforced architectural guidelines for microservice boundaries, data contracts, and CI/CD workflows, ensuring long-term scalability and developer efficiency.
  • Contributed to code reviews and hands-on debugging across multiple teams, raising engineering standards and accelerating delivery of high-risk features.
  • Designed and implemented zero-downtime CI/CD pipelines for legacy apps, boosting velocity by 40% and achieving 99.99% uptime.
  • Shifted release cadence from weekly to continuous deployments, increasing deployment frequency by 1000%.
  • Implemented proactive alerting, monitoring, and on-call protocols, cutting Sev1 incidents by 50%.
  • Established multiple cross-team guilds, including an AI Guild, to drive shared learning and experimentation, increasing AI adoption in development workflows by 40% and accelerating delivery of automation initiatives.
  • Migrated 50 legacy applications from self-hosted to AWS infrastructure including CI/CD and multiple environments.
  • Led definition of key architectural design documents aligning teams, including Product Placemats and Tech formularies.
Principal Software Engineer
August 2013
 — 
July 2023
Planview
  • Served as principal architect responsible for the authentication and authorization architecture across Planview’s flagship enterprise products, establishing consistent identity standards, secure API gateways, and centralized access policies.
  • Designed and implemented a unified single sign-on (SSO) platform across all Planview applications, leading the transition to a modern identity and access management framework using OAuth2 and OpenID Connect to ensure enterprise-grade security and a seamless experience for 700+ enterprise customers.
  • Led modernization of flagship products from .NET Framework to .NET Core and monolithic to modular architecture, improving scalability and maintainability.
  • Architect and individual contributor for AWS-based integration platform connecting 10 acquired products, standardizing APIs, and enabling interoperability at scale.
  • Designed and delivered public enterprise scalable APIs (SOAP/REST) supporting 10K+ custom integrations and partner ecosystems.
  • Migrated enterprise platforms to AWS managed services, reducing hosting costs and increasing reliability.
  • Championed DevOps culture by automating pipelines, driving cross-functional collaboration, and leading a transformation that broke down organizational silos.
  • Served as hands-on technical lead, contributing in C#, ASP.NET, SQL, TypeScript, and cross-language integration (Python, Java).
  • Delivered cloud-first enterprise applications with AWS best practices for scalability, security, and performance.
  • Provided technical vision, hands-on guidance, and problem-solving support to individual contributors, managers, and leads; raising code quality, reducing delivery risk, and improving team confidence.
Senior Software Engineer
March 2012
 — 
August 2013
Planview
  • Established a company-wide multi-product integration strategy by collaborating with cross-functional teams to seamlessly onboard newly acquired products, streamlining customer workflows, increasing adoption of additional offerings, and strengthening cross-sell opportunities.
  • Engineered enterprise-grade APIs integrating Planview Enterprise with diverse applications and data endpoints, enabling informed decision-making, improving user experience, and enhancing product stickiness.
  • Developed and standardized reusable design patterns, accelerating development velocity, reducing defects, and ensuring architectural consistency across product lines.
  • Delivered clear, concise, and comprehensive product documentation, shortening onboarding time for new users, increasing adoption, and maximizing feature utilization.
  • Automated development pipelines, improving delivery efficiency, raising software quality, and reducing time-to-market for new features.
Senior Technical Consultant
June 2008
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March 2012
Planview
  • Delivered multi-million-dollar integration projects for clients including Tieto and Deutsche Bank, orchestrating 30+ systems integrations.
  • Spearheaded $1.5M project for Tieto by instituting project management system for 1850 users, 20K projects, and 20K resources, organizing 32 integrations with Oracle ERP, mentoring development team in API integration, designing MI components with Analytics Reporting Portal, deploying Jira Connector, and managing installations across four environments.
  • Designed dashboards and data pipelines for analytics and reporting portals, improving cost visibility and executive decision-making.
  • Implemented APIs and interfaces for enterprise-scale project and resource management systems.
  • Provided technical leadership on customer sites across Europe.

Projects

Education

Newcastle University (UK)
Present
 — 
Present
Bachelor of Arts in Accounting & Financial Analysis

Awards

Volunteer

Languages

Skills

Core Expertise:
Technical Vision & System Architecture, End-to-End Ownership of Critical Platforms, C#, .NET, Azure, AWS, Microservices Architecture, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Authentication & Authorization, OAuth2, OpenID Connect, Distributed Systems, SQL, NoSQL, Domain Driven Design, Cloud-Native Development, Scalability, Performance Optimization, CI/CD, DevOps, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Architecture Decision-Making, TDD, BDD, Agile Delivery
Architecture & System Design:
Cloud-native microservices, distributed systems, performance & reliability engineering, modernization of legacy applications
Core Development:
C#/.NET (Framework & Core, up to .NET 9), ASP.NET, SQL, TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, Java, API design (REST, SOAP, GraphQL), Cosmos DB
Cloud Platforms:
AWS (ECS, Lambda, CloudWatch, RDS, DynamoDB, API Gateway, Cognito, S3), Azure
DevOps & Delivery:
CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, Infrastructure-as-Code (CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform), GitHub Actions/Jenkins, automated testing
Monitoring & Observability:
Dynatrace, Sumo Logic, AWS CloudWatch, on-call rotations, proactive alerting
Leadership & Collaboration:
Technical mentoring, architectural decision-making, cross-team guilds and strategy sessions, roadmap planning, success metrics, cross-functional communication

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