Andrew Smith

Andrew Smith has over 20 years of work experience in software engineering, product management, and business development. Andrew is currently a Senior Software Engineer at Vantaca, starting in 2022. Prior to this, they worked at Paisley Recommerce Services as a Senior Software Engineer from 2021 to 2022, where they redesigned and rebuilt the Paisley API and worked primarily with Vue, Nuxt, Node, PostgreSQL, AWS, Semantic UI, and Bootstrap. From 2020 to 2021, they served as a Principal Software Engineer at Apex Systems, focused on enhancing the College Cost Prep Angular app.

In 2019, Andrew was the owner of Web Matters LLC, a web consulting firm, where they provided product and technology strategy consulting and developed a MERN stack web app. Andrew also worked as a Full Stack Cloud Engineer at MobileSmith Health from 2019 to 2020, building medical analytics dashboards and documenting APIs using React, Redux, Node.js, AWS API Gateway, and Terraform.

From 2018 to 2019, Andrew worked as a Software Engineer at Carimus, maintaining and expanding a business analysis application and managing a microservices environment with AWS and Docker. Prior to this, they were a Senior Launch & Product Manager at Relias from 2016 to 2017, leading a product team and reengineering the release and launch workflow.

Andrew has also held positions at Global Knowledge Training, where they served as the Director of Market Intelligence from 2014 to 2015, leading an analytics and research team and implementing data quality improvement initiatives. Andrew worked at The McClatchy Company as a Content Director and Business Development Manager from 2007 to 2014, leading an enterprise digital transformation and monetizing information assets.

Andrew began their career at Thomson Reuters as the Director of Business Development - Content Licensing from 2001 to 2007, managing a team responsible for establishing licensing relationships with publishers and securing agreements for a new information product platform. Overall, Andrew Smith has a diverse background in technology, product management, and business development.

Andrew Smith has an MBA degree from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, with a focus on marketing, strategy, and finance. Andrew also holds a Bachelor's degree from Colgate University, where they studied biology and economics. In 2019-2020, Andrew attended the Zero To Mastery Academy to study computer software engineering. Additionally, they have obtained the PMC-III certification from Pragmatic Marketing.