Andrew Popov

Experience

San Francisco, CA

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.
Lead a focused 12-person engineering org (4 direct engineers + an Engineering Manager leading 8); previously scaled the department to ~30 engineers across 4 US/Hungary teams at peak.
Expanded the engineering department by 20% through strategic hiring, onboarding, and mentorship; established scalable cross-team processes for product lifecycle management.
Led platform integrations architecture for revenue management systems, driving a 15% increase in per-unit revenue.
Drove technical debt reduction strategy that cut legacy code by 25%, accelerating feature delivery across the org.
Migrated the majority of Lambda-based finance workloads into structured microservices and rebuilt the NetSuite integration, improving ownership boundaries, observability, and delivery speed.
Created a governed AI-assisted self-service process enabling non-engineering stakeholders to propose code-backed solutions via templates, automated validation, and engineering-owned productionization.

03/2022 – 10/2023

Managed financial accounting, payment processing, and revenue management systems, reducing transaction errors by 10%.
Developed seamless feature handoff processes with QA and TechOps, improving delivery efficiency by 25%.
Aligned engineering priorities with business OKRs, ensuring 100% on-time delivery for all major initiatives.
Led the development of an OTA integration platform (Airbnb, Expedia, and others), expanding market reach by 30%.
Led technical due diligence for an acquisition and integrated the acquired engineering team and platform within 3 months.
Approved architectural plans aligned with long-term business goals, contributing to a 20% reduction in tech debt.

03/2020 – 03/2022

Pioneered Kasa's engineering management function as the first Engineering Manager, growing the team from 2 to 6 engineers.
Built financial systems using AWS technologies (Lambda, SNS, SQS, Fargate) and the `seed.run` serverless framework, improving financial reporting accuracy by 15%.
Defined and executed the product roadmap with product teams, balancing technical debt reduction with new feature development.
Spearheaded the division of teams into Revenues and Financials, recruiting an Engineering Manager to lead Financials.
Mentored junior engineers, fostering professional growth that resulted in multiple promotions to senior and staff-level roles.

San Francisco, CA

06/2017 – 03/2020

Led a team building and maintaining a dynamic ETL framework integrating data from 20+ third-party vendors (hotel, booking, pricing, revenue), improving data accuracy and processing efficiency by 30%.
Optimized a proprietary Business Intelligence tool, enabling custom report generation for hundreds of hotel clients and reducing report generation time by 25%.
Developed a predictive hotel-group business forecasting model as part of the analytics team, achieving a 15% improvement in revenue forecasting accuracy.
Designed deployment infrastructure for forecasting models, reducing model deployment time from weeks to days and enabling faster response to market changes.

San Francisco, CA

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%.
Mentored team members in Agile methodologies and development/testing best practices, contributing to a 15% improvement in team productivity and code quality.