# Andrew Finch > Applied AI & Fullstack Eng. Building Gitar. Ex Forward, Uber. Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/andrewfinch Full-stack software engineer and tech lead with 14 years of experience building apps, services, distributed systems, and making key architecture decisions. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Gitar Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Building the best AI code review platform on the market. ### Member & Startup Investor @ The Bond Fund Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Our fund invests in high potential early-stage software startups. We're a collective startup investment and social group, like a VC, but a non-profit, managed by the members. Our membership consists of like-valued people, all optimistic and curious. We use a collaborative fund model to learn together, share ideas, and build connections. ### Staff Software Engineer @ Forward Jan 2018 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area • Led development of the operating system and app execution environment for the CarePod, a self-contained, AI-powered doctor’s office in a kiosk. • Designed and built the CarePod health check systems, OTA update system, config and deployment systems, and the app download and caching system, enabling observability, reliability, and continuous updates. • Created a charter for the App Development Platform team and the SDK for building apps on the Forward platform. • Worked with stakeholders across teams to guide key architectural decisions and review code, helping teams make the best technical choices during the design, spec and development phases. • Built a number of backend services from the ground up for collecting and processing health data for Forward members. • Built a variety of no-code tools, allowing Ops and non-Engineer stakeholders to build apps for the platform and control the customer experience. • Built and launched essential features that allowed clinicians to view and evaluate member health data, schedule visits, and order labs, medications, and treatment plans using Forward’s in-house Electronic Medical Records software. • Organized educational sessions and hackathons for the engineering team, providing mentorship and contributing to a strong engineering culture. ### Senior Software Engineer (Driver Trip Experience Team) @ Uber Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area • Owned and implemented many parts of the core on-trip experience in the iOS Driver App, including navigation, map interactions, and wait time charging. • Worked with stakeholders across many teams to integrate delivery, shared rides, and payment flows into the on-trip experience. • Made significant contributions to the rewrite of the Driver App using the Uber-developed RIBs mobile app architecture. ### Software Engineer (Driver Growth Team) @ Uber Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area • Built flows to help new drivers upload documents, do background checks, and get their vehicle inspected, reducing friction in the driver onboarding process. • Led the initial integration of Paytm into the Rider App as a payment method in India. • Helped launch Uber in China by adding localization improvements and map experience upgrades. ### Co-founder and CTO @ Vektr.io Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 • Led development efforts for iOS signal-processing pipeline that allows app developers to process, package, and analyze sensor data with minimal effort and tremendous flexibility. • Built pipeline modules that implement common signal processing operations, such as filtering and FFTs, which app developers can use with just a few lines of code. • Carried out extensive market and technical-specific research to find potential clients, gauged interest, and refined feature set. • Used Agile Scrum to design, complete, test, and deliver SDK to 7 clients in 10 weeks. • Constructed a unique system of chainable monads and specialized data structures in Objective-C; led all debugging efforts, which included numerous concurrency issues. ### Co-founder, Lead Front-end Developer @ XS app for iPhone Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 • XS is a social commerce iPhone app, like Instagram for Action Sports. • Re-wrote entire iOS codebase (33+ KLOC) from the ground up in 9 weeks using modern iOS programming patterns, iOS Storyboards, Parse (back-end as a service), Amazon S3, Facebook/Twitter authentication, and push notifications. • Used Node/Express, SASS, HTML5, CSS animations, and JQuery Promises to build the XS web app, as well as a widely appraised, interactive pitch deck (joinus.xsapp.co). • Worked directly with CEO to guide development schedule for design and engineering teams using Agile Scrum. • Product accepted to App Store in December; 35% month-to-month growth in installs. • Performed a substantial amount of graphic design and Photoshop work for UI elements. ### Co-founder, CTO @ Copia Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco Bay Area • Feeding Forward allows organizations to request a pick-up of their excess consumable food, which is then delivered to homeless shelters by volunteer drivers using iPhone and web applications. • Recruited and led the 5-person engineering team as we designed and constructed the iPhone app, Rails web app, back-end, and API from scratch. • Formed partnerships, coordinated food pickups, and attracted new users, enabling our software to facilitate the recovery of over 10,000 pounds of food. • Managed the larger Feeding Forward team of volunteer marketers, designers and organizers. • Helped Feeding Forward become an AngelHack Finalist and get accepted to UC Berkeley’s Skydeck incubator. ### Product Designer, Project Manager @ Monsoon Company Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 | Berkeley, CA • Designed, prototyped UI/UX (with Balsamiq mockups), and compiled specifications for a variety of client web and mobile apps, including a portfolio publishing platform for modeling agencies. • Oversaw numerous projects and coordinated among parties to facilitate development processes and meet deadlines. Made use of Agile Scrum techniques and an array of management tools (including Pivotal Tracker and Basecamp). ## Education ### B.A. in Computer Science University of California, Berkeley ### Monte Vista High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/andrewafinch --- Source: https://flows.cv/andrewfinch JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/andrewfinch/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05