Andrew Gentry
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Experience

Professional Work History

Outdoor Hospitality Research

2026 — present

Outdoor hospitality data platform

Website

Co-founder

  • Built the data standard for outdoor hospitality: verified benchmarks from real property-management data, matched against parks that actually operate like yours.
  • PMS-agnostic ingestion collecting daily from verified property-management systems across multiple platforms.
  • Peer comp sets that let operators track occupancy, ADR and RevPAS month over month, and against the same month last year.
  • Live and onboarding operators.

WellSaid Labs

2024 — present

Enterprise AI Voice Platform

Website

Staff Engineer

  • Developed a high-performance Go audio system to handle text-to-speech processing and replace legacy audio utilities.
  • Built out advanced system observability tools to monitor real-time performance of audio utilities and server utilisation.

Senior Software Engineer

  • Led the product design and complete development of a closed captioning system for AI-generated audio.
  • Developed and launched Caruso Studio, achieving ~50% adoption within the first three months across 5,000+ users.
  • Implemented streaming audio playback, dramatically reducing time-to-first-audio and improving perceived performance across the product.

StickerGiant

2022 — 2024

Custom Online Sticker Manufacturing

Website

Technical Product Manager

  • Stepped outside my typical engineering role to help StickerGiant adopt a product-engineering model.
  • Integrated deep website analytics tooling that enabled customer segmentation and data-driven marketing audience targeting.

Senior Staff Engineer

  • Led a team of seven engineers in replacing a 20-year-old legacy system with a modern React-based platform supporting order management, artwork workflows, and payments.
  • Built strong relationships between marketing, manufacturing, and engineering teams to deliver tools and services that reduced costs, shortened artwork turnaround time, and improved order conversion.

Reedgen

2019 — 2022

Freelance Engineering & Consulting

Founder · Engineer

  • Delivered freelance software projects for clients across Colorado, from simple website builds to complex hybrid-cloud ERP installations.
  • Managed end-to-end client engagements. Led entrepreneurs through requirements scoping, project roadmapping, delivery, and technical team building.

Campspot

2019 — 2021

Campground Management System

Website

Engineering Lead

  • Led a team of four engineers focused on payment integrations, POS systems, and accounting backends.
  • Implemented a system-wide observability system to track application performance, system health, and financial KPIs.

Full Stack Software Engineer

  • Upgraded checkout flows, improved payment service reliability, and enhanced CI/CD pipelines for faster and more consistent deployments.
  • Built caching systems to improve performance and reliability of large-scale enterprise reporting features.

Atlas Realities

2017 — 2019

Location-Based Mobile Gaming Studio

Software Engineer

  • Developed software for a GPS-enabled mobile game using Unity3D.
  • Designed and operated cloud infrastructure on Azure.
  • Optimised application performance for low-resource mobile environments, balancing compute, battery, and UX constraints.

University of Colorado Boulder

Education

B.S. Electrical & Computer Engineering · Minor, Computer Science

Technical domains

Cloud Infrastructure

Networked environments, deployment pipelines, and reliability-focused infrastructure.

AWS · Docker · IAC · CI/CD · VPCs

Web & SaaS Products

Customer-facing applications with complex backends, integrations, and high performance demands.

TypeScript · Node · React · Next.js

Data, Analytics & Observability

Systems built for measurement, insight, and operational visibility.

Prometheus · Telemetry · CI/CD · SQL

Distributed Platform Services

Services supporting scale, integration, and long-term evolution across teams.

Java/Kotlin · C# · APIs · Postgres

Media & Real-Time Systems

Streaming, media processing, and time-sensitive systems where latency and throughput matter.

Kafka · ffmpeg · Python · Golang