Andrew Carlisle
Software Engineering Manager
Engineering leader with over a decade of programming experience and 7+ years building and managing teams across AI products, security tooling, and industrial IoT. I also pursue independent research in historical linguistics — you can find that work on my research blog.
Experience
Engineering Manager at Luxury Presence
Apr 2024 – PresentLeading development of an LLM-based AI lead nurturing solution for real estate agents. 50/50 hands-on and management. Anthropic, Kafka, Twilio, AWS.
Senior Engineering & AI Advisor at Plutoshift AI
Mar 2024 – Dec 2024Advising the CEO on engineering and AI strategy during company reboot. Presenting monthly to the board, pitching to investors in the Bay Area and Europe.
Engineering Manager at Kandji
May 2022 – Jun 2023Managed five senior engineers building a vulnerability management product. Python/Flask, Redis, Postgres, AWS Kafka.
Senior Manager, Backend Engineering at Plutoshift
Feb 2020 – Jul 2021Grew from sole backend engineer to managing a team of 7. Overhauled backend infrastructure, managed SOC2/ISO compliance, supported ML/AI team.
Projects
NinMed
View →A database and research tool for Babylonian medical texts, making ancient Near Eastern medicine accessible to researchers.
Santakku
View →An interactive cuneiform writing and study tool for learning and working with wedge-script writing systems.
LangWC
A novel scripting language interpreter with 3x faster performance than Python 3, featuring unique AST and expression design.