Andy Elmhorst Email & Phone Number

United States

Privileged to lead the Engineering, Support, Implementation, Security, IT, and Platform teams for an innovative startup, building AI enabled, headless solutions for eCommerce. While my title is VP Engineering, my responsibilities cross the entire tech and customer service teams. We are building B2B Software As a Service and D2C web and mobile apps that host AI based shopper recognition and personalization, accelerated checkout, recommendations, social/ad network integration, credit… Show more Privileged to lead the Engineering, Support, Implementation, Security, IT, and Platform teams for an innovative startup, building AI enabled, headless solutions for eCommerce. While my title is VP Engineering, my responsibilities cross the entire tech and customer service teams. We are building B2B Software As a Service and D2C web and mobile apps that host AI based shopper recognition and personalization, accelerated checkout, recommendations, social/ad network integration, credit card, and alternative payment method services.Integrated onsite and offsite checkout platforms to build a highly scalable, highly available, near zero latency checkout solution for Meta, Pinterest, Google that delivers 3x conversion over site redirects. Built an AI enabled self-service customer onboarding capability to enable scalable market adoption. Led the build out of a new engineering hub in India, hiring the team and driving global engineering practices to enable a strong and flat engineering culture across global regions. Implemented flat communication structures that improved eNPS score on my team by +55 in six months. Developed and drove a technology strategy that organized product engineering teams along clear product pillars with clear "you build it, you run it" ownership responsibilities across global teams. Championed a 180 degree turn in strategy for support teams from an off-shore first strategy to an AI-first strategy and hybrid global teams model.(While at Bolt, also held roles as Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, Director of Engineering) Show less

Seattle, Washington, United States

- Rebuilt the High Velocity Events tier 1 service post the 2018 PrimeDay outage. Built support for load-shedding and multiple layers of fallback experiences to maintain 5+ 9s of availability during Amazon High Velocity events. Responsible for resiliency and high availability, gameday planning, load shedding, dependency management.- Led operational readiness deep dives in Amazon’s weekly Consumer Ops Review, - Advised multiple engineering teams on architecture within Amazon Prime in US… Show more - Rebuilt the High Velocity Events tier 1 service post the 2018 PrimeDay outage. Built support for load-shedding and multiple layers of fallback experiences to maintain 5+ 9s of availability during Amazon High Velocity events. Responsible for resiliency and high availability, gameday planning, load shedding, dependency management.- Led operational readiness deep dives in Amazon’s weekly Consumer Ops Review, - Advised multiple engineering teams on architecture within Amazon Prime in US and CA dev centers with frequent site visits and office hour engagements.- Developed a mobile-first technology strategy to enable cross-platform content syndication and rendering across multiple web and mobile platforms (Android/iOS/Kindle)- Served AWS enterprise sales in an advisory capacity as the Lead AWS Solutions Architect for a Fortune 500 enterprise publishing company. Show less

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Led engineering teams for an educational data startup with a successful exit. Built a SaaS product that integrates disparate educational data and identity systems for education. Extended the solution into an integration platform as a service (iPaaS)

Denver, Colorado, United States

Executive technology architecture leader of a courseware and LMS technology portfolio that delivered $1.7B revenue annually across hundreds of applications- Led software and systems architecture for a business unit in Pearson. - Reported directly to the Chief Technology Officer, Pearson Global Higher Education- Responsible for technology strategy, M&A due diligence, and architecture governance. - Led a 60 person architecture team that supported 100 engineering teams spread… Show more Executive technology architecture leader of a courseware and LMS technology portfolio that delivered $1.7B revenue annually across hundreds of applications- Led software and systems architecture for a business unit in Pearson. - Reported directly to the Chief Technology Officer, Pearson Global Higher Education- Responsible for technology strategy, M&A due diligence, and architecture governance. - Led a 60 person architecture team that supported 100 engineering teams spread across several cities in the US, as well as offshore locations. Show less

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

- Built several SaaS products for an educational data startup that had a successful exit, acquired by Pearson- Products were in the enterprise data integration space, building data connectors to operationalize interoperability between disparate educational data systems, including identity management, enterprise data collection, and data analytics platforms. - Led engineering systems design and standards body initiatives as the Chief Architect both pre and post acquisition

Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, United States

As a Senior Software Engineer at Renaissance Learning, led the core server team that designed and built from scratch, Renaissance Place, the company's first fully integrated and enterprise-class API platform which still today supports the company’s portfolio of classroom learning applications. Also, while at Renaissance Learning, developed the company's first eCommerce website, and wrote and managed multiple internal applications in support of DRM and ERP.

Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, United States

As a freelance consultant, developed multiple versions of a custom Order Management System that enabled complex pricing for countertop factories, including custom rules around slab lengths, colors, manufacturers. In addition, Generated and optimized orders for raw slabs based on batches of orders. Application was written in QBasic and rewritten in Visual Basic.