Technology professional with 10+ years of software engineering experience, managing engineering teams of high performance web, mobile, and infrastructure engineers.
He has experience managing multiple technical platforms and migrating to newer ones when needed, with experience scaling an engineering organization in a high-growth environment, both as remote contractors and full-time employees. He puts his strong consensus building skills, negotiation, and decision-making skills, coupled with sound judgment, to good use to help grow teams, while being able to both code and mentor and lead engineers at the technical level.
At Wayfair, Andrei led the global sales research and development department, across product, engineering, business intelligence and design functions. His department was focused on building Wayfair's moat through sales-agent driven sales, provinding a higher touch, personalized and vertical integrated experience for B2B and specialized B2C sales. The Sales R&D team supported a $2B annualized business, while Wayfair was a $10B run rate business. He was part of Wayfair's senior executive leadership team, with interim reporting to the CTO. He scaled the sales R&D teams from 8 engineers to 100+ within 9 months.
As the VP of technology leading digital for Global Retail Markets - US at Liberty Mutual Insurance, Andrei led a customer centric transformation of digital teams, leading all digital customer facing applications and systems for Liberty Mutual and Safeco brands, and oversees the 250 person strong Boston Tech Hub that he built out. He was part of Liverty Mutual's senior executive leadership team, reporting to the GRM US CIO. He scales the Boston teams from 6 people to over 200 in 18 months.
At HubSpot Labs, the startup incubator within HubSpot, he helped build the largest marketing community platform, among other R&D projects. And in earlier roles, Andrei was a hands-on engineering leader, building core platform capabilities, and interfacing with business leaders to drive meaningful business-impacting solutions.
Andrei is an MIT Sloan MBA student and an alumni of Columbia University Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, with a Masters of Science in Computer Science with a Concentration in Machine Learning. He previously studied computer science at NYU and Boston University.