Summary
Andy Tetnowski is a senior software engineering manager based in Seattle with 12 years of experience leading teams to build scalable, high-throughput web and real-time systems. He currently leads engineering at Axon, having managed up to five teams and set technical direction across Go, React, TypeScript, SQL, and Kafka for both legacy maintenance and greenfield products. Andy has a track record of shipping large-scale front-end and backend systems—everything from a Chrome extension used by millions to real-time chat handling tens of thousands of concurrent users. He pairs hands-on technical leadership with hiring and mentorship experience, growing teams and establishing interview and onboarding practices. Prior roles include leading cloud migrations, building CI/CD and AWS VPC infrastructure, and modernizing monoliths into React/Redux apps. With a BA in Sociology, he brings a pragmatic, people-focused approach to engineering leadership that emphasizes sustainable architecture and developer growth.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Orange Coast College
BA Sociology, BA Sociology at California State University, Long Beach
Edison High School