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 – Present

Leading 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 2024

Advising 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 2023

Managed five senior engineers building a vulnerability management product. Python/Flask, Redis, Postgres, AWS Kafka.

Senior Manager, Backend Engineering at Plutoshift

Feb 2020 – Jul 2021

Grew from sole backend engineer to managing a team of 7. Overhauled backend infrastructure, managed SOC2/ISO compliance, supported ML/AI team.

Projects

NinMed

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A database and research tool for Babylonian medical texts, making ancient Near Eastern medicine accessible to researchers.

Python Flask

Santakku

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An interactive cuneiform writing and study tool for learning and working with wedge-script writing systems.

TypeScript React

LangWC

A novel scripting language interpreter with 3x faster performance than Python 3, featuring unique AST and expression design.

C++ Language Design

Skills

Languages: Python, C++, TypeScript/JavaScript, C, SQL
Infrastructure: AWS (Kafka, EKS, IoT/MQTT, Elasticache), Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform
Databases: PostgreSQL/PostGIS, Redis, Cassandra, MySQL