Sandy Vanderbleek

Sandy Vanderbleek

Mentor
5.0
(36 reviews)
US$30.00
For every 15 mins
63
Sessions/Jobs
ABOUT ME
Really nice person who wants you to succeed
Really nice person who wants you to succeed

I have 16 years of professional experience as software engineer. I teach and mentor regularly, specializing in functional programming and web development.

English
Eastern Time (US & Canada) (-05:00)
Joined October 2013
EXPERTISE
8 years experience | 5 endorsements
I have taught Haskell to students and spoken at functional programming conferences with slides of examples in Haskell. I have written web...
I have taught Haskell to students and spoken at functional programming conferences with slides of examples in Haskell. I have written web apps and command line tools and studied algorithms using the language.
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6 years experience | 11 endorsements
I attended numerous Jane Street meetups (they use OCaml for finance) and studied logic programming using OCaml as it is popular in automa...
I attended numerous Jane Street meetups (they use OCaml for finance) and studied logic programming using OCaml as it is popular in automated theorem proving as seen with LCF.
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SML
4 years experience
I have helped numerous students with university courses in SML and ML family languages.
I have helped numerous students with university courses in SML and ML family languages.
8 years experience
I've done production micro-services and web scraping in Go.
I've done production micro-services and web scraping in Go.
4 years experience
Rust has grown to become a realistic option in industry and is popular for open source projects.
Rust has grown to become a realistic option in industry and is popular for open source projects.
14 years experience
I've used Ruby and Ruby on Rails extensively to build web apps at startups.
I've used Ruby and Ruby on Rails extensively to build web apps at startups.
12 years experience
I use Python regularly at work and for interviews. I use it for backend web development, exploratory data science, and algorithms and dat...
I use Python regularly at work and for interviews. I use it for backend web development, exploratory data science, and algorithms and data structures.
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REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS

5.0
(36 reviews)
Mary
Mary
April 2021
I came into the session really lost on which direction to take and left with a better understanding and point of focus.
Ariela
Ariela
March 2021
really takes the time to make sure I understand the material !
Ariela
Ariela
March 2021
very helpful !
Jonathan Yuan
Jonathan Yuan
February 2021
Sandy is hands down the best functional programming mentor on Codementor. He is very intelligent and knowledgeable in the subject. Sandy was able to quickly debug and help implement various projects while providing insightful explanations. I am extremely grateful for the opportunity to have worked with an outstanding professional and highly recommend everyone else to take full advantage.
Tyler Thompson
Tyler Thompson
December 2019
Sandy helped me out a ton. Pretty quick and definitely knew what he was talking about. Thank you a ton.
Sylvia
Sylvia
August 2016
Sandy was very helpful in providing me direction and resources within functional programming in JS and Haskell. Whether you are a beginner or advanced, he is very knowledgable in explaining concepts and walking you through them in detail. So, come prepared with questions! :)
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Removed User
February 2015
Sandy was really helpful, helped me solve my issue and was extremely patient given my inexperience with Ruby. Cheers!
Didrik Birkemalm
Didrik Birkemalm
February 2015
Quick and helpful! Perfect!
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Removed User
January 2015
Sandy was as advertised, a great mentor and valuable resource.
tomohiro
tomohiro
January 2015
He is briialint !!
EMPLOYMENTS
Senior Software Engineer
Pantheon Remote
2020-07-01-2023-09-01

• Team lead for product instrumentation, developed self-service process with event schemas using Segment, integrated with data warehou...

• Team lead for product instrumentation, developed self-service process with event schemas using Segment, integrated with data warehouse to enable funnel analysis and data-driven decision making
• Investigated card testing on Stripe, saving thousands of dollars of monthly fraud charges
• Architected entitlements API, which enabled tiered bundling of features across entire engineering organization
• Full stack engineering in a microservices environment with server-less, pub/sub, and jobs system

Python
Django
Node.js
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Python
Django
Node.js
PostgreSQL
Docker
React
Google Cloud Platform
Kubernetes
Terraform
Go
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Senior Software Engineer
Pivotal Labs NYC
2015-05-01-2019-08-01

• Consulted enterprise clients on engagements as part of balanced teams while teaching pair programming, test driven development, and ...

• Consulted enterprise clients on engagements as part of balanced teams while teaching pair programming, test driven development, and agile methodology
• Transaction reconciliation project for Home Depot that automated the correction of millions of receipts for VIPs
• Architected and engineered microservices for backend of a vehicle control mobile app for Ford
• Ran machine learning models on compute clusters to crunch large advertising bid and impression data
• Brought into save project suffering from over engineering to retain and extend client relationship
• Delivered industry wide tech talks on Java and Ruby as well as and internal core practice talks

Ruby
Python
Java
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Ruby
Python
Java
C#
Ruby on Rails
MongoDB
Spring
PostgreSQL
Azure
Apache Spark
ASP.NET
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DevOps Engineer
CardSpring (Acquired by Twitter) SF
2013-06-01-2014-07-01

• Mentored by experienced systems engineer on infrastructure automation for a highly available real time payments system
• Built C...

• Mentored by experienced systems engineer on infrastructure automation for a highly available real time payments system
• Built CLI tools that provisioned development environments and supported rolling deploys
• Contributed to product engineering for merchant onboarding and A/B testing for marketing efforts

Ruby
Ruby on Rails
Amazon EC2
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Ruby
Ruby on Rails
Amazon EC2
Cassandra
JavaScript
Chef Solo
AWS
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