Andrew Wilson

• Director of Engineering · since 2024
• Senior Web Engineer · since 2022

Product and engineering studio, about 200 people, part of Bain & Company · New York City

• Lead a team of four Principal engineers, mentor three engineers, and have led teams of up to 17.
• Designed an AI quoting platform for a manufacturer that ties together its ERP, CRM and pricing warehouse, built to cut quote turnaround from days to hours for 60+ sales reps. The model never calculates prices; a deterministic truth layer does. The engineer who took over maintenance estimated I wrote 80 to 90% of the new quote engine, and the pattern became the studio's reference architecture.
• On the same engine, found that every query opened its own single-use database connection, so requests queued for one connection at a time. Refactored the Python service onto a shared connection pool, with caching, cleaner views and a simpler connection architecture.
• Closed unauthenticated routes I found in review, and built an admin dashboard so the client could manage the quote engine's portal themselves.
• Audited a life-sciences company's enterprise AI program and showed that the "86+ ERPs" it planned around were really 4 source systems. The client approved my intake architecture in one session.
• Built scenario evals in Langfuse for an AI email-intake pilot on sanitized production data, checking that emails are valid, complete and routed to the right department. They caught real failures, and the pilot is reporting a 90%+ success rate.
• Built with Python and SQL on two projects, including Databricks Unity Catalog, jobs and gold-layer medallion tables.
• Co-led a real-time industrial control-panel (HMI) platform for an oil and gas company, a roughly 80-engineer modernization of 5 applications, as one of three directors; owned the authorization design and the CI/CD pipeline.
• Led frontend architecture for a patient-scheduling platform integrated with a legacy system, delivering MVP 1.0 in 6 months across 100+ clinic locations.
• Built an internal transcription tool on a self-hosted speech engine (17 merged PRs) to replace a $6K-a-month vendor at about $150 a month, modeled to save about $70K a year, and cleared all 18 open security alerts.
• Ran 100+ stakeholder demos across enterprise engagements.

Programs I started or ran

• Company hackathon. Started the company's first hackathon, which got a company of about 200 people thinking about how to turn internal work into revenue.
• FORGE. Built FORGE, which converts bench time into proofs of concept, whitepapers and sales tools.
• Brown Bag talks. Ran the internal talk series across 10+ topic areas, built its recorded library, then recruited and coached my successor.
• AI-assisted development. Led my team's move to AI-assisted development: wrote our Augment instructions, set up Figma through MCP, and moved the team to Claude Code in 2026.
• 5-Day Engineering Health Check. Turned health checks I ran on two engagements into a repeatable 5-day review that other leads now run.
• Engineering education. Aligned 90+ engineers on shared practices and help lead education across the company.

Full Stack Developer

Connected fitness · Remote

• Reviewed pull requests with senior engineers, catching defects and refining implementation across the codebase.

Founder

My solo consultancy · Bellevue, WA

• Built a web platform and iOS app on AWS serverless for an education client, and an e-commerce integration for an apparel retailer.

Team Lead, Senior Software Engineer

Contractor for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Remote

• Led a team of five (two developers, a tester and a business analyst) through six major requirement changes, and shipped a HIPAA-compliant application in three months.
• Built the project's CI/CD pipeline and cut legacy web-form code by 40%.

Senior Software Developer

• Redesigned a consumer job site, growing viewers 25%.
• Moved search to Elasticsearch on AWS, cutting search time by 40 seconds.
• Cut page load on 3G from 15 seconds to 5 by trimming CSS 30% and compressing images 90%.

Senior Software Developer

A federal financial regulator, through Pragmatics (contractor, then employee) · Washington, DC

• Lead developer on several public regulatory websites and a public search tool for enforcement actions, built mobile-first.
• Ran Scrum for a senior-leadership team and automated the build and test pipeline.
• Moved the agency's build process to a new platform, saving over $100K.
• Helped build the agency's careers site, an Official Honoree in the 2016 Webby Awards (Employment category).
• Covered four roles at once (software developer, assistant project manager, Scrum Master and assistant finance manager), saving the company about $100K a year.

Web and software development, starting with e-commerce in 2011. Details on request.