# Andrew Chalker > Engineering Lead at Panasonic Well Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/andrewchalker I am software developer with a passionate and enjoyable interest in identifying ways for teams to be more efficient while improving software quality across the board through development of tools, processes, and automation. ## Work Experience ### Engineering Lead @ Panasonic Well Jan 2023 – Present Led a cross-functional feature development organization delivering high-impact AI-driven product capabilities from inception to launch. Collaborated and oversaw a project with 6 Product Managers, 13 Engineers, 5 Designers, and QA professionals, driving alignment across product, design, and engineering to deliver quality at speed. Key achievements: Scaled from concept to 1.0.0 launch: Spearheaded end-to-end delivery of a net-new platform, guiding architecture, roadmap, and execution from greenfield (v0.0.0) to production (v1.0.0). Accelerated development velocity: Reduced average feature turnaround time from 8 months to 2 months through foundational infrastructure, streamlined processes, and a culture of iteration and accountability. Built AI-first infrastructure: Established critical systems and architecture to support intelligent, data-driven experiences and high-availability AI pipelines. People leadership & growth: Managed and mentored an additional 6 engineers, driving multi-year career development, performance calibration, and technical skill advancement across disciplines. Cross-functional excellence: Partnered closely with PMs, design, QA, and data science to create a cohesive, outcome-oriented delivery model focused on measurable customer and business value. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Yohana Jan 2020 – Jan 2025 | United States Wellness company creating software, services, and hardware specifically for modern families. Our first offering is the Yohana Membership: a personal assistant service designed for busy parents (especially moms) to help lighten the mental load of having too much to do. ### Mobile Application Developer @ Racepoint Energy Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 ### Software Engineer @ Noon Home Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 Responsible for internal support tools as well as android mobile development. Design, develop, maintain, and test multiple projects using HTML5, CSS3, React/Redux, Java, and Clojure. Thoroughly document UI components in an interactive pattern library. ### Freelance Web Developer @ Self Employed Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Lead Software Engineer @ CLMP Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area Working with a team of developers to create a ride sharing application that is able to connect people in need of car ride to those that are able to provide rides. In the project, some highlights were designing and implementing microservices that originally went from 2,000 requests per second with 1-4s response times in Javascript to 10,000 concurrent requests per second with 1-10ms response times in Go. The team goal is always to find working solutions, but finding better ways to be improving. ### Software Engineer @ Saber Forums Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area Saber Forums is an open conversation blog. As a team lead, we established a stronger test coverage from an average of 50% to 80% to improve our code quality. While supervising, was able to also manage server routes to appropriate endpoints and pave the way for scalable and meaningful interactions with the frontend and backend teams. ### Software Engineer @ Whale Then Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area Whale Then is a collaborative trip and event sharing planner. During the project, was able to transition from a React to Redux to allow for scaling of our deeply nested stateful components. This allowed for a cleaner and more performant application. After the transition to Redux, I also redesigned the dynamic routing to utilize React Router which allowed for simpler routing solution. ### Account Manager @ Alpha Surety Insurance Brokerage Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Production Manager @ Institute for Leadership Studies Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | San Rafael, CA 94901 As the volunteer manager, I was responsible for on-boarding and training over 100+ volunteers. Events grew from 8-10 a year to 16-20 and as there became a higher demand, was able to maintain a strong core of reoccurring volunteers of 20+ to 50+ that were all active members. Was responsible for event coordination of initial set up, on your feet event solutions, and post event clean up/break-down. ### Intern @ Larkspur Financial Advisors Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | 100 Tamal Plaza #110 Corte Madera, CA ### HR Manager and Bookkeeper @ AdVantageTec, Inc. Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | 1163 Francisco Blvd E., San Rafael, CA, 94901 -Send out 250 invoices monthly to customers -Accounts Receivables management of outstanding invoices -Policy Writer -Processed bi-monthly payroll -Maintained chart of accounts -Managed Quickbooks Online account ### Technical Sales Support @ iTradeNetwork, Inc. Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Pleasanton, CA Gathered and analyzed data for gap analysis by emailing surveys and cold calling customers. ## Education ### Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA in Business Administration Dominican University of California ### Computer Software Engineering Hack Reactor ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/chalkerandrew --- Source: https://flows.cv/andrewchalker JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/andrewchalker/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-10