Andrew Popov

Director of Engineering | AI-Native Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) | Developer Productivity | Financial Infrastructure

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andrewvpopov@gmail.com linkedin.com/in/andrewvpopov San Francisco, CA

Profile

Summary

Engineering leader with 12+ years building financial, revenue, data, and platform systems across hospitality technology and fintech-adjacent environments. Combines Director-level org leadership with hands-on IC execution, AI-native development workflow design, developer productivity systems, and high-velocity financial infrastructure delivery.

Highlights

Selected Accomplishments

Led broad adoption of AI-assisted engineering across Codex, Claude, Gemini, and Cursor, building tool-agnostic SDLC workflows for implementation, test generation, refactoring, operational investigation, task decomposition, and review preparation.
Introduced weighted productivity measurement using GitClear Diff Delta, release frequency, and shipped business outcomes; validated AI-assisted workflows that helped increase release frequency 2x and quarterly impact targets 30%.
Piloted advanced agentic workflows with reusable autonomous skills for Datadog, MongoDB, QA, testing, and task decomposition; actively developing orchestrator patterns for coordinated multi-agent delivery of larger features.
Accelerated critical finance delivery: prototyped and development-completed an invoice feature in 3 days vs. ~1 month estimated, built 10 daily finance reports plus a report runner/wizard UI in 5 days vs. ~1.5 months estimated, and completed NetSuite rewrite core development in ~1/5 of pre-AI estimates before finance-critical validation and rollout.

Career

Experience

Kasa

San Francisco, CA

Director of Engineering

10/2023 – Present

Own financial systems while leading Integrations, Revenue Management, and Property Management teams supporting a 100-property platform and key integrations including NetSuite, NextPax, Duetto, Airbnb, and Kustomer.
Led up to ~30 engineers across 4 US/Hungary teams at peak operating scale; currently oversee a lean 12-person org, including 4 direct engineers and an Engineering Manager leading 8 others.
Migrated the majority of Lambda-based finance workloads into structured microservices and rebuilt the NetSuite integration, improving ownership boundaries, maintainability, observability, and delivery speed.
Rewrote the MongoDB-to-BigQuery ETL pipeline, replacing a third-party vendor dependency and increasing internal control over analytics and reporting data flows.
Created a governed AI-assisted self-service process enabling non-engineering stakeholders to propose code-backed solutions through templates, automated validation, and engineering-owned productionization.

Senior Engineering Manager

03/2022 – 10/2023

Managed financial accounting, payment processing, and revenue management systems, reducing transaction errors by 10%.
Improved QA and TechOps feature handoff processes, increasing delivery efficiency by 25%, while aligning engineering priorities with business OKRs.
Led OTA integration platform work for channels including Airbnb and Expedia, expanding market reach by 30%.
Played a key role in technical due diligence for an acquisition and integrated an acquired engineering team and platform within 3 months.

Engineering Manager

03/2020 – 03/2022

Established Kasa's engineering management function as the first Engineering Manager, growing the team from 2 to 6 engineers.
Built financial systems using AWS Lambda, SNS, SQS, Fargate, and serverless frameworks, improving financial reporting accuracy by 15%.
Split the organization into dedicated Revenues and Financials teams, recruited an Engineering Manager to lead Financials, and mentored engineers into senior/staff-level roles.

Duetto Research

San Francisco, CA

Senior Member of Technical Staff

06/2017 – 03/2020

Led a team building a dynamic ETL framework integrating hotel, booking, pricing, and revenue data from 20+ third-party vendors, improving data accuracy and processing efficiency by 30%.
Optimized a proprietary BI tool used to generate custom reports for hundreds of hotel clients, reducing report generation time by 25%.
Built analytics and forecasting infrastructure for hotel group business, contributing to a 15% improvement in revenue forecasting accuracy and reducing model deployment time from weeks to days.

MyVest

San Francisco, CA

Senior Software Engineer

06/2012 – 05/2017

Led 5 engineers in modularizing a Java-based financial system, decreasing feature development time by 40% and improving test coverage across core services.
Partnered with product managers to translate financial business requirements into technical specifications, improving client satisfaction and internal system performance by 20%.

Work

Selected Projects

Developer Productivity

AI-Native SDLC and Agentic Workflows

Tool-agnostic AI-assisted engineering practice across Codex, Claude, Gemini, and Cursor — covering implementation, test generation, refactoring, operational investigation, task decomposition, and review preparation. Includes weighted productivity measurement via GitClear Diff Delta, release frequency, and shipped outcomes; validated AI workflows correlate with 2x release frequency and 30% lift in quarterly impact targets.

Financial Systems

Finance Infrastructure Modernization

Migrated the majority of Lambda-based finance workloads into structured microservices with clearer ownership boundaries, maintainability, and observability. Includes a governed AI-assisted self-service path that lets non-engineering stakeholders propose code-backed solutions via templates and automated validation, with engineering-owned productionization.

ERP Integration

NetSuite Integration Rewrite

Rebuilt Kasa's NetSuite integration end-to-end. Core development completed in ~1/5 of the pre-AI estimate before finance-critical validation and rollout. Improved delivery speed for accounting workflows and reduced operational toil for the finance org.

Data Platform

MongoDB-to-BigQuery ETL Rewrite

Replaced a third-party vendor dependency by rewriting the MongoDB-to-BigQuery sync in-house, increasing internal control over the analytics data flow and enabling faster iteration on the BI/reporting stack downstream.

Capabilities

Skills

Leadership

Engineering Strategy Technical Vision Org Design Hiring Mentorship Stakeholder Management OKRs Agile Distributed Teams

AI & Developer Productivity

Codex Claude Gemini Cursor GitClear AI-Assisted Development SDLC Automation Agentic Workflows Multi-Agent Orchestration Autonomous Skills Code Review Quality Gates

Architecture & Delivery

Platform Engineering Cloud Architecture Microservices Service-Oriented Architecture Event-Driven Architecture Distributed Systems CI/CD Observability Reliability DevOps

Financial, Revenue & Data Systems

NetSuite ERP Integrations Financial Systems Accounting Payments Invoicing Revenue Management OTA Integrations ETL/ELT Data Pipelines BigQuery BI

Technology

TypeScript JavaScript Java Python Node.js Nest.js React GraphQL AWS GCP Lambda SNS SQS Fargate SQL MongoDB Cassandra Datadog

Academic

Education

University of California, Berkeley

BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science