A talented and influential software engineer, Andy Edwards pioneered the full stack Javascript tooling behind JCore's cloud and edge software products.

Andy graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a bachelors in computer science and worked in a number of industries, including oil and gas, financial services, and advertising. After joining JCore in 2014, Andy integrated a wide array of emerging open source technologies to create JCore’s full stack Javascript development environment. Andy frequently contributes code back to the open source community, helping drive the forward progress of the open source JavaScript ecosystem.

In addition to integrating popular open source tools, Andy has created countless groundbreaking original libraries for JCore in areas including automatic code generation, untrusted code execution, database change detection, and software build management.

Andy lives in Austin, Texas, where he’s heavily involved with the local cave exploration community. He has mapped previously unexplored cave systems across the United States and Mexico, contributed to conservation and education efforts, and even written software to visualize cave networks in 3D.