Andrew Lamb

Andrew Lamb has worked in the software engineering and development industry since 1997. Andrew began their career as an intern at Perseus Development Corp., where they worked on Survey Solutions. In 2003, they joined Oracle as a Senior Member of the Technical Staff for Oracle interMedia. In 2005, they moved to DataPower, where they were a Senior Software Engineer and worked on a Just In Time compiler and code generation platform for an x86 architecture within an embedded SOA XML network appliance. In 2007, they joined Vertica Systems as a Developer, where they led the Query Optimizer team and personally designed, implemented and debugged substantial portions of distributed query planning and execution, monitoring, SQL language features, and performance optimizations in C/C++. In 2013, they joined Nutonian as the VP of Engineering and the Chief Architect, where they were responsible for all aspects both technical and managerial of a ~15 person software engineering team. In 2017, they moved to DataRobot as the Chief Architect, where they aligned engineering architecture and teams during 2.5 years of ~100 percent yearly headcount growth. In 2020, they joined InfluxData as a Staff Engineer, where they are working on InfluxDB IOx, a new time series database technology, in Rust, to support a high volume multi-tenant cloud. Andrew is also an Apache Arrow PMC member.

Andrew Lamb attended the Noble and Greenough School from 1994 to 1998, where they obtained a Diploma. Andrew then continued their studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning an SB in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 2002 and an MEng in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 2003.