Andrew Brown

Engineering Leader · Data Platforms

Profile

Engineering leader with 16 years of experience, three and a half of them as Director of Software Engineering. Moved from agency work into product engineering in 2023 to work at greater scale. Now tech lead for the data engineering team behind a commercial real estate database of 40M+ records. Built and launched the company's website-visitor identification product, which opened a new revenue line and grew into a programmatic advertising business. Kept 10+ services shipping while engineering went from 15 people to 3, absorbing product scope — roadmap and requirements — along the way.

Experience

Biscred (a Bisnow company)

Senior Software Engineer, Lead

Remote · January 2023 – Present

  • Built and launched the company's website-visitor identification product. Customers install a tag, traffic goes out to identity vendors, results are enriched against our database and returned. New revenue line, 150+ tags live.
  • Extended it into programmatic advertising and built the campaign reporting customers use to judge ad spend. 100+ campaigns for roughly 57 advertisers.
  • Tech lead for the data engineering team. 10+ services behind a database of 26M companies, 9M contacts, and 4M buildings, deployed on Kubernetes with Flux. Cut AWS spend by over 10% by rightsizing and reworking pipelines.
  • Took on product responsibility as the org contracted. Share roadmap and prioritization with the product manager, and write the requirements and specs for what the team builds.
  • Own the ETL rebuild: a single Postgres pipeline replacing a set of microservices, taking company, person, and building data through standardization, identity resolution, validation, and scoring across eight metadata-driven layers. Runs alongside production, not in the live path.
  • Kept delivery going through restructurings that cut engineering from 15 people to 3. Set technical direction for a team that peaked at 7, and mentored summer interns across multiple years through to shipped work, in partnership with a university program.
  • Built MCP servers and agent tooling now used across the company, so non-engineers can query platform data without us.

Martin Advertising

Director of Software Engineering

Birmingham, AL · August 2019 – January 2023

  • Ran engineering for a full-service ad agency. Managed up to 6 engineers, including hiring, reviews, and promotions.
  • Owned architecture and delivery planning across concurrent client projects.
  • Managed cloud infrastructure and spend for the agency's web portfolio.
  • Chose and introduced new technology. Cut technical debt on inherited projects.
  • Automated build and deployment so the team stopped doing it by hand.

Martin Advertising

Senior Full Stack Engineer

Birmingham, AL · January 2010 – August 2019

  • Built and maintained web applications for national and regional clients. Promoted to Director of Software Engineering in 2019.
  • Introduced Docker, standardizing local development and deploys across projects.
  • Mentored junior engineers and led technical work spanning client teams.
  • Handled clients directly, from scoping through support.

Education

University of Montevallo — Montevallo, AL

BS, Mass Communication and Digital Media · Cum Laude · 2003 – 2007

Skills

Leadership
Hiring, coaching, career development, roadmapping, stakeholder management
Data platforms
ETL, AWS Glue, Redshift, OpenSearch, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, MySQL, data modeling, identity resolution
AdTech
Programmatic advertising, demand-side platforms, campaign analytics
Infrastructure
AWS, Azure, Terraform, Kubernetes, Flux, Docker, GitHub Actions
Languages
PHP, Python, SQL, JavaScript, HCL
Frameworks
Laravel, Next.js, React, Livewire, TailwindCSS
AI
MCP servers, agent tooling, LLM integration