Andrew Gow

full-stack product engineer OPEN TO WORK
a@gows.us· 630-240-8602· github.com/zargow· Yorkville, IL· remote or Chicago west suburbs

Positions

frontendTypeScript · React · JavaScript · real-time and data-dense UI
backendNode.js · REST APIs · WebSockets · Python · Java · C#
dataPostgreSQL · DB2 · SQL · schema design · query optimization
platformLinux · nginx · systemd · Git · CI and deployment
domainregulated and audited systems · low-latency state sync · third-party integrations

Blotter

Independent real-time systems & interfaces 09/2025 — present
self-directed
  • Built a multiplayer game server in Node with WebSockets and Postgres. The server owns all the game state, player data persists, and there is a world editor built into the client. It is live at gows.io and shares logins with a Next.js hub over signed tokens.
  • Wrote the audio engine from scratch. It generates every sample itself into a streaming buffer, picks the pitch of each hit out of a scale, and snaps it to a musical clock that keeps running at normal speed even when the game drops into slow motion. A low-pass filter follows the slowdown so it sounds muffled.
  • Building a 3D game for desktop, web and mobile out of one codebase. Most of the work is tooling: an in-editor authoring layer, deterministic replay so a scene plays back the same way every time, and a live debug readout that has to fit inside the frame budget.
  • I run the whole stack myself. One box, nginx, systemd, Postgres, four services plus staging. No platform team.
Christian Brothers Services Full Stack Developer 05/2020 — 09/2025
Romeoville, IL · 5y 5m
  • Built and maintained full-stack apps handling sensitive records in a regulated industry. Everything was audited, so getting the data wrong was a compliance problem and not just a bug.
  • Built and documented REST APIs used by internal teams and outside integrations. Front end in TypeScript and React.
  • Built a VIN decoding pipeline on top of external APIs and took a slow manual process off people's desks.
  • Tuned SQL queries and schemas on PostgreSQL and DB2 to make them faster and more reliable.
Audit Technology Group Full Stack Developer 12/2017 — 06/2019
Libertyville, IL · 1y 7m
  • Built and maintained internal audit tools in C# and JavaScript.
  • Moved legacy systems onto something maintainable and set up real deployment and testing.

Education

B.S. Computer Science · Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL