Andrew Defaria

Andrew DeFaria has a diverse range of work experience in various roles and companies. Andrew currently works at cPanel as a Perl Developer II, a position they have held since September 2021. Prior to that, they worked at Wells Fargo as a Perl Developer from July 2019 to June 2022.

Before their time at Wells Fargo, Andrew worked at General Dynamics as a Solaris Administrator and PuppetMaster from March 2018 to January 2019. At Avago Technologies, they served as a Build and Release Engineer from August 2016 to February 2018, where they worked on converting an internal project's build system.

In addition, Andrew has worked at ICANN as a Software Engineer for a brief period in 2016 and at Knowles Corporation as a Software Configuration Manager from March 2014 to April 2016. Andrew also worked as a Build and Release Engineer at Axcient from July 2013 to December 2013.

Earlier in their career, Andrew held the role of Clearcase/Clearquest Admin at both Broadcom from December 2011 to April 2013 and Tellabs from March 2011 to December 2011. Andrew also worked as a Clearcase/Clearquest Consultant at Fannie Mae in October 2010.

Throughout their career, Andrew has demonstrated their expertise in Perl scripting, build systems, and configuration management tools.

Andrew DeFaria began their education in 1978 at Union College - NJ, where they pursued an A.A.S degree in Computer Science until 1980. Following this, from 1981 to 1982, they attended Fairleigh Dickinson University, focusing on Computer Science. In 1990, they briefly studied Computer Science at San Jose State University for a year. Andrews's educational pursuits also include various certifications obtained later in their career. In September 2017, they achieved the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate certification, offered by PSI Services LLC. Additionally, in August 2021, they obtained multiple certifications from LinkedIn, including Advanced MySQL and MariaDB, Git Intermediate Techniques, Git for System Administration, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Essential Training for Developers, Learning Subnetting, MySQL Advanced Topics, Networking Foundations: Networking Basics, PowerShell: Scripting for Server Administration, Python Essential Training, Python Object-Oriented Programming, and Python Standard Library Essential Training.