Engineering leader & hands-on Elixir/infra engineer who turns messy systems into resilient, cost-efficient platforms.
- Scaled & operated Elixir systems at ~25k RPS (peaks 100k+) across tens of services, rebuilt infra with Terraform, and drove ~$1M/yr in savings through right-sizing and smarter infra in year one.
- Ex. Founding engineer @ Firezone (open-source Zero Trust access) — built the control plane & dashboard, 99.99(9)%+ uptime on GCP with IaC.
- Previously led engineering to 3×+ revenue growth to 8 figures in year one by shipping new products fast, paying down tech debt, and hiring top talent.
- Delivered national-scale healthcare systems (NHS of Ukraine, used daily by 30M+ people and virtually all hospitals for reimbursements, medical records, e-prescriptions, and more) and large fintech platforms (P2P lending for one of the largest lenders in Europe, e-wallets).
- Maintainer of Nebo15 org (e.g.,
sage,logger_json,confex,ecto_mnesia) and active contributor in the Elixir ecosystem. - Ex-founder. Startups didn’t survive; the skills did, and so did my love of being proactive and wearing many hats.
Backend Elixir · Phoenix/LiveView
Frontend / Design HTML * JavaScript * Tailwind · UX
Data & Messaging PostgreSQL · RabbitMQ · TypeSense · Redis
Infra & Cloud Terraform · Kubernetes · GCP · AWS
DevOps / SRE CI/CD · Observability
FinOps / Strategy Cost optimization · Product management · Spreadsheets · SEO · Marketing
Quick reads by project/topic
- Sage / Sagas in Elixir
- Elixir runtime config & deploys
- NHS on Elixir & Kubernetes
- Designing a P2P lending platform (Elixir)
- Sensitive file uploads (signed URLs/GCP)
- Blockchain-like integrity for gov DBs
- How to automatically run stale tests in Elixir
All posts on Medium: https://medium.com/@andrew_dryga
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If you’re growing an Elixir or infra-heavy product and need pragmatic speed, reliability, and cost wins — let’s talk.