Andrew Orsich
Verified Expert in Engineering
Scalability Developer
Andrew is a generalist who has spent the last 18 years working at many startups as an engineer/CTO and technical product manager. He's managed large teams and helped a few companies to succeed. He's also launched a few small products like Maqpie.com and Homehug.ai. Andrew understands all general business aspects, from engineering to product to marketing, and he enjoys engineering and solving complex problems with software.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Visual Studio Code (VS Code), MacOS
The most amazing...
...thing I've done was serve as an engineer and lead a team during the growth stage of a company named TheraNest, which was sold for $1.2 billion.
Work Experience
CTO
Lighthouse
- Worked closely with the founders on merging multiple teams and ensuring smooth product growth. Led the migration to Amazon EKS and managed the engineering team.
- Participated in merging with the acquired company (Umovefree.com).
- Helped design and build the data pipeline. Learned and helped improve SEO.
Co-founder | Technical Product Manager
Auxilin
- Launched a small product, Maqpie.com, used daily by 20,000 users.
- Launched a product, Homehug.ai, which is a simple family organizer.
- Oversaw a couple of projects in the marketing domain.
Lead Engineer | Technical Product Manager
Paralect
- Participated as a team leader or architect in 5+ startups—three of which passed an exit: ChatPath, Robomongo, and TheraNest.
- Built two new technological departments over the past five years and helped grow the total number of employees to over 50.
- Created and open-sourced a product called Ship that is used to initiate a startup in minutes (Github.com/paralect/ship).
Software Developer
SaM Solutions
- Handled the synchronization of two massive SQL databases.
- Wrote detailed technical specifications for the product.
- Developed numerous custom controls using jQuery and Ajax.
Experience
Ajeva
mPowering Networks
Menu Builder
Landscape Workshop
Hummingbird
SpeakUp
https://getspeakup.com/TheraNest
https://www.theranest.com/I was the first developer of the company and worked on a product for around a year. During this year, we released an MVP and number of releases, built a team of 5+ engineers, and helped the product to grow from 0 to around 500 paid companies.
ChatPath
Online Freelance Marketplace
Education
M.Sc. Degree in Computer Science
Belarusian National Technical University - Minsk, Belarus
Certifications
MongoDB for DBA (M102)
MongoDB, Inc.
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React, React Redux, Chai, Node.js, Backbone.js, Stripe, Twilio API, Twitter API, Facebook API, Mandrill API
Tools
Docker Hub, Ansible, GitHub, Mocha, Mesos, Jira, Trello, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
Frameworks
Koa, Redux, .NET, ASP.NET MVC, AngularJS, Express.js, ASP.NET Web API, Knockout (Knockout.js), NUnit, Next.js, NestJS
Languages
JavaScript, C#, SQL, T-SQL (Transact-SQL), Snowflake
Paradigms
Continuous Integration (CI), Concurrent Programming, Distributed Computing, Continuous Deployment, Inversion of Control
Platforms
OS X, Docker, DigitalOcean, Amazon, Linux, Windows, AWS Lambda, MacOS, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Storage
NoSQL, MongoDB, Redis, RavenDB, MySQL, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL
Other
Scalability, Serverless, Customer.io, Metabase, Data Warehousing, OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence (AI), APIs, Development, SaaS
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