# Andrew Parmar > Software Engineering Manager Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/andrewparmar Full Stack Developer with experience in Enterprise SaaS products. Background in mechatronics engineering. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Rye Jan 2025 – Present Payments ### Software Engineering Manager @ Pivotal Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 ### Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack @ Pivotal Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 ### Senior Software Engineer, Backend @ Ditto Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area Ditto is a computer vision company that created industry-leading virtual try-on experiences for glasses. Acquired by 1-800-Contacts and renamed to Luna * Designed, developed, and deployed various microservices to support Ditto's Virtual Try-On AR platform. * Spearheaded containerization-based development practices, facilitating the hosting of services on Elastic Container Service. * Led product and major feature releases by creating development plans, accurate timeline estimates, and close collaboration with product and management teams. * Coordinated development efforts with cross-functional teams, including research, data, and front-end/mobile, ensuring seamless integration. * Played a key role in screening, hiring, and training new developers, contributing to team growth and proficiency. ### Software Engineer II, Backend @ Ditto Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area * Developed and maintained web services for computer vision, 3D reconstruction, and rendering. * Managed deployments with Jenkins and orchestration using Ansible, ensuring seamless and efficient operations. * Designed comprehensive testing strategies, covering unit, functional, and integration testing to enhance product quality, as well as performance testing for scalability and cost efficiency. * Produced detailed documentation and release notes, enhancing project transparency and facilitating seamless knowledge transfer. ### Software Engineer @ SendHub Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 Python Engineer working on Django and Flask based applications. Stripe | Amazon Lex chatbots | Angular2 | AWS ### Python Developer/Sales Engineer @ OnRule Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area I lead sales engineering with responsibilities including: • Develop and maintain applications on a LAMP stack (Flask, Python, Postgres, Linux) o Customer subscription management portal for Sales and Operations o Regulations Management portal for Compliance Office • Process automation: Using python scripts to automate Customer Onboarding, Database Migrations, Web Scraping, Marketing Research. • Develop and maintain JSON based REST API. • Investigating client requirements, and ideation/design/wireframing of product solutions. • Conducting regression testing and product acceptance testing before release. • Support sales for all potential client meetings from initial contact through to subscription renewal/upselling. Conducted 200+ demos over 6 national marketing events. • Manage 5 member customer onboarding team (local + offshore). Drove onboarding of 15+ enterprise customers. • Creation of customer facing documentation/tutorials/marketing videos. ### Mechanical Design Engineer @ Vavni Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | Santa Clara, CA •Turnkey product development from concept ideation to manufacturing: Extracting customer requirements. Concept brainstorming, sketching and ideation. 3D CAD modeling in SolidWorks and ProEngineer/Creo Parametric Creating Parts, Assemblies, and Detailed Manufacturing Drawings. Working with sheet metal, machined, injection molded parts, & some die casting design. Performing FEA stress simulation, and structural analysis calculations on chassis. Tolerance analysis: RSS and Worst Case – blind mate connections, connector mates, FRU insertion, design sanity checks. Defining panel interfaces and creating Silkscreen or Overlay Labels. Performing calculations for heat sink selection. Working with vendors to design cost effective and robust Wiring Harness / Cable assemblies. Working with vendors to resolve DFM and DFA issues. • Modeling PCB fabrication boards, and assemblies: Working with DXF files and board layout engineers to define mechanical PCB models in iterative design process. PCB mechanical component placing, designing keep outs, connector sourcing and integration. Daughter board assembly and connector mates. Basic schematics, component pattern creation in PCB layout software (Diptrace) • Used PTC Windchill, Pro/Intralink, SolidWorks PDM/Explorer, and Agile PLM for product data and lifecycle management. • Processing Engineering Change Orders (ECO’s). • Extensive work with Bill of Materials and documentation tasks. • Vendor management: Extensively assisting project manager during CM quoting process. Analyzing quotes, and creating comparisons summaries for executive level staff. ### Intern - Mechanical Design Engineering @ Vavni Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Santa Clara, CA CLIENTS: Cisco Systems Involved in the design and documentation of the Cisco's flagship CRS 1-16 Core Router. Used arithmetic and statistical tolerancing to provide meaningful feedback and changes to design. Worked with ProE Wildfire 4.0 to design, perform interference check, and create extensive part and assembly drawings. Also used Windchill Pro/Intralink extensively for database management and BOM creation. Additionally, used Cisco EMCO database for various documentation and revision update processes. Polycom Collaborated with design engineers on the Polycom OTX-300 performing extensive tolerance analysis and CAD check analyses Used arithmetic and statistical tolerancing methods to provide meaningful feedback to ensure design validity. Used SolidWorks to perform interference check, CAD check and BOM check. Juniper Networks Used Pro/Intralink to provide a backup of database for Juniper Networks. Also performed airflow testing on Tsunami chassis using a mock-up foam core wind-tunnel. Cisco Participated in BOM creation on the Cisco Telepresence System 3000. ### Co-founder & Mechanical Engineering Lead @ Spherical Drive System Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 The spherical drive system (SDS) is an electric motorcycle that maneuvers on spheres instead of traditional wheels. It couples MEMS gyroscopic sensors, accelerometers, and a computer control system to achieve stability and omnidirectional maneuverability absent in traditional motorcycles. ### Teaching Assistant @ Foothill College Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 Provided in-class mentoring to students in algebra and trigonometry ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science Georgia Institute of Technology ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Mechanical Engineering San José State University ### Graduate Robotics and Mechatronic Systems Courses Santa Clara University ### Foothill College ### Full Stack Web Development Nanodegree in Python | Flask | Javascirpt | PostgreSql | Google App-Engine | Linux Udacity ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/andrew-parmar-81a55917 - Website: http://www.sphericaldrivesystem.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/andrewparmar JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/andrewparmar/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01