Summary
Charlie Andrews is a product engineer with 11 years of experience helping non-technical businesses build custom software, blending seven years at Google with extensive startup and consulting roles. He’s shipped scalable front-end and back-end systems—from Chrome performance tooling and input latency metrics at Google to a Rails/React streaming platform as a CTO and a React-based plasmid editor for synthetic biology. Charlie combines deep performance engineering (including Datadog profiling that cut editor latency by 8x) with product instincts, having led analytics, UX-driven funnels, and an internal hackathon-to-product effort that won executive backing. Recently he’s been advising businesses on practical LLM integrations and hands-on product engineering for industrial clients. Based in Ann Arbor, he pairs technical leadership with a pragmatic, maker mindset—equally comfortable shipping code, hiring teams, or translating domain experts’ needs into working software. Outside work he’s a runner, dad, and self-styled Secretary of the Tom Silva Fan Club, which hints at a playful, down-to-earth personality.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University
English, German