Mr. Andy Clark

Technology Leader and Chief Technology Officer
Denver, Colorado · E-commerce · Subscription Systems · Engineering Leadership
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Summary

Technology leader and Chief Technology Officer with extensive experience architecting modern e-commerce, subscription, and data systems at high growth consumer brands. Expert in designing scalable platforms, building engineering organizations, and driving cross functional alignment across product, operations, marketing, and executive leadership. Known for transforming legacy systems into modern, high performance architectures, delivering measurable business impact, and leading teams through complex technical, operational, and cultural change. Combines hands on technical depth with strong strategic leadership, mentorship, and a consistent focus on delivering high impact, production ready systems.

Core Competencies

Subscription Architecture · E-commerce Platforms · AWS Serverless · API Ecosystems · Data Engineering · Technical Leadership · System Modernization · Node.js and Next.js · Product and Engineering Strategy

Experience

Chief Technology Officer · Shinesty

June 2021 to Present

  • -Recruited for deep subscription commerce expertise to lead the design and rollout of Shinesty's next generation subscription platform, enabling dynamic product assignment based on inventory availability, merchant configuration, and customer preferences.
  • -Quickly developed a deep understanding of Shinesty's business, systems, and operational workflows, applying that knowledge to design scalable data models and domain architectures for custom applications. Partnered closely with executive leadership and cross-functional teams to align technical structures with real-world processes and long-term business strategy.
  • -Architected and implemented core backend systems across Node.js, AWS serverless infrastructure, and MongoDB, establishing the long term technical foundation and improving scalability, reliability, and deployment velocity.
  • -Built hundreds of APIs that power Shinesty's e-commerce experience, enhancing storefront functionality, personalization, product data enrichment, and cross team operational processes.
  • -Drove the complete rebuild of the legacy Shopify Liquid storefront into a modern Next.js application, significantly improving performance, maintainability, and flexibility for rapid feature development.
  • -Delivered a suite of internal tools, including a custom CMS, analytics instrumentation, A/B testing framework, size guide platform, admin and management applications, and advanced promotion and sale configuration systems to increase operational efficiency across marketing, merchandising, and operations.
  • -Served as a senior leader on the executive team, partnering with operations, customer experience, marketing, finance, and creative to diagnose bottlenecks, align technology with business priorities, and deliver cross functional improvements.
  • -Mentored and developed the engineering team, fostering a culture of curiosity, technical craftsmanship, ownership, and high trust collaboration.
  • -Managed a wide ecosystem of vendors and integration partners, including payments, logistics, analytics, search, martech, and fulfillment providers, ensuring each solution was evaluated, implemented, and scaled appropriately.
  • -Led architecture, security, compliance, and long term technical strategy while serving as the primary decision maker for engineering initiatives.

Senior Engineering Lead · Green Chef / Hello Fresh

May 2018 to May 2021

  • -Served as an integral technical leader guiding multiple cross functional engineering initiatives from concept through deployment and acted as a domain expert in a complex legacy codebase.
  • -Led the full rewrite and relaunch of Green Chef's customer web application, transforming it from one of the slowest in the meal-kit space into a top-performer.
  • -Architected and built scalable APIs and supporting services for subscription management, menu selection, and weekly order generation, handling tens of thousands of customer actions per week.
  • -Organized and mentored a growing team of engineers introducing coding standards, review practices, and sprint rituals that increased throughput and reduced production incidents.
  • -Collaborated with operations, menu planning, data, and logistics teams to align platform capabilities with business goals, enabling new menu features, efficient fulfillment, and more accurate forecasting.
  • -Took ownership of critical production reliability issues and implemented instrumentation, monitoring, and alerting that reduced firefighting and empowered engineers to solve problems proactively.
  • -Acted as a technical liaison between Green Chef and HelloFresh engineering leadership to ensure smooth integration of systems and representation of Green Chef requirements at the group level.

Chief Technology Officer · Goosetail Labs

April 2016 to March 2018

  • -Led development across multiple concurrent client projects in diverse industries and served as both principal architect and hands on engineering lead.
  • -Owned client onboarding, technical discovery, and project planning, translating business requirements into clear engineering roadmaps.
  • -Demonstrated strong technical judgment and rapid decision making in ambiguous environments, guiding teams toward scalable and maintainable solutions.
  • -Delivered projects on time with a focus on code quality, reliability, and long term maintainability and established internal engineering standards and reusable libraries that accelerated delivery.
  • -Fostered long term client relationships through clear communication, transparency, and consistent throughput, resulting in expanded engagements and repeat business.
  • -Supported and maintained MEAN stack applications deployed on AWS, including architecture, deployment pipelines, performance tuning, and environment stability.

Co-Founder · ClarkMetrics

July 2015 to March 2018

  • -Co founded and built a MEAN stack analytics platform that modeled PGA TOUR player performance using statistical projections.
  • -Developed features for generating daily fantasy lineups, head to head matchups, and wagering handicaps using custom projection models.
  • -Designed and developed technical components including data ingestion, modeling pipelines, user interface, and portfolio simulation logic.

Vice President and Development Manager · IHS Markit

August 2009 to April 2016

  • -Led a development team delivering financial and healthcare web applications for Fortune 500 clients, including feature scoping, estimations, and architectural decisions.
  • -Coordinated across internal teams and stakeholders to support complex multi year projects with high availability and compliance requirements.
  • -Drove engineering quality through structured code reviews, standards adoption, and repeatable delivery practices.
  • -Served as a principal C# engineer and contributed to core application architecture and long term maintainability initiatives.

Education

BS - Computer Science & Communications

Grace College & Seminary, Winona Lake, Indiana, 2007

AS - Interactive Media

The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2005