Summary
Andy Payne is a seasoned engineering leader with 16 years building product and platform teams across startups and enterprises, now serving as VP of Engineering at DealerBuilt in San Francisco. He blends hands-on software development, electronics, AR/VR/MR, and AI/ML experience with a track record of scaling teams as CTO and Senior Director at companies including Nemo, Cisco, and Symantec. Known for creating tools and workflows that bring people together, he focuses on reimagining how teams collaborate to advance the future of work. Comfortable switching between research, product, and engineering roles, he pairs broad technical curiosity with a pragmatic drive to ship.
16 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer