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Software Engineer

Andrew Ford

FULL STACK | RAILS | AGENTS

San Francisco, CA | linkedin.com/in/maybeandrewford | ButterCut.io | github.com/barefootford

Awards and Open Source

3rd Place, Consumer Agents
YC AI Agents Hackathon
Aug 2025
3rd Place
SF Ruby AI Hackathon
Jul 2025
ButterCut
Video editing agent
500+ stars

Experience

Technical Founder

TubeSalt
Mar 2024 — Dec 2025
San Francisco
  • Created agentic thumbnail workflow with script understanding, brainstorming, and sketch generation
  • Built Rails-based YouTube A/B testing platform for titles and thumbnails with channel OAuth integration
  • Created automated image model training system based on creator likeness
  • Created ButterCut video editing agent with clip processing, audio transcription and rough cut generation
  • Created marketing videos, ran advertising campaigns, and conducted cold customer outreach

Senior Software Engineer

Poll Everywhere
Jun 2022 — Nov 2023
San Francisco (Remote)
  • Shipped Rails and Hotwire-powered visualization from prototype to 100% production launch
  • Created critical presenter features that worked cohesively across websocket broadcasts and client side changes
  • Traced and fixed critical production queue issues with benchmarked performance improvements

Software Developer

eCFR.gov (Critical Juncture)
Jan 2017 — Oct 2020
San Francisco
  • Built data versioning service for Code of Federal Regulations that recursively walks the tree representation of laws and indexes changes
  • Built XML preprocessing and normalization system for CFR data integrity
  • Developed public Rails app with daily digests, search, and subscription support
  • Built public and private API endpoints for XML, JSON, HTML

Software Engineer

Credible
Jul 2015 — Feb 2016
San Francisco
  • Improved student loan refinancing system with shared and lender-specific approval rules
  • Built financial integrations with Lending Club, Prosper, and Pave using real-time APIs and webhooks

Junior Software Engineer

Bugcrowd
2014

Software Engineer Intern

Bountysource
2014

Education

Bachelor of Arts

Boise State University
2009 — 2013