User:Andrew Helwer

Andrew Helwer (born September 20, 1990 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) is a software engineer in Microsoft Azure. He holds a BSc in computer science from the University of Calgary. Helwer contributes to Wikipedia articles on algorithms, formal methods, and distributed computing. He currently resides in Seattle, Washington, USA.

Early life and education

Andrew Helwer grew up in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada, attending Waverly Park School and later Vincent Massey High School. As a long track speed skater he elected to attend the University of Calgary in order to train at the Calgary Olympic Oval. Although initially studying physics, he graduated in 2014 with a BSc in computer science.

Helwer was a software engineer intern at Acceleware from May 2011 to August 2012. He worked on computational electrodynamics simulations with the finite difference time domain method, on NVDIA's CUDA platform. He also worked on CT scan reconstruction and modelling radio frequency heating. He was a summer intern in Microsoft Azure in 2013, returning as a full-time software engineer May 2014. Helwer works on distributed computing problems using the Paxos protocol and conflict-free replicated data types. He also relies on formal specification in TLA⁺ to ensure correctness of his system designs.

Helwer has made major contributions to several articles in the areas of algorithms, distributed computing, and formal methods.

	The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
	Thanks for your input on the notability of MQL4! This kind of case is not easy to handle and I think you made the right choice. Pintoch (talk) 21:33, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

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UofC

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ALG

This user is an expert in algorithms.

FMET

This user is an expert in Formal methods.

DIST

This user is an expert in Distributed computing.