Andrew Watson

Senior Consultant

Andrew Watson is a Senior Consultant at Improving Ottawa, with a Ph.D. in physics and a decade of programming experience in C++, Java, Scala, and Rust. His particular expertise is in microservices / distributed systems, but he also makes a mean slide deck. When he's not programming, you can find him skating or cycling around Ottawa, Canada, where he lives with his wife and their 30 houseplants.

Latest Thought Leadership

Check out the latest thought leadership by Andrew Watson wrote.

Software Development

Drop Everything and Review

Prioritizing Code Review When Developing Software

Tech Insights

Make Invalid States Unrepresentable

Use types and let the compiler do the hard work of data validation for you.

Platform Engineering

What This Senior Developer Learned From His First Big Rust Project

Take a journey with an Improver as he builds his first Rust IoT MVP over the Holidays