Passion through curiosity, connection, and teaching.

Andrew Duncan is a highly driven technology executive with a combination of strategic insight, business expertise, financial skills, and deep technology experience, with a record of success in the leadership of application development, vendor management and consulting initiatives for major companies and high-growth startups. Regarded for his ability to deliver effective results with the highest degree of expertise and professionalism. 

Professional Experience

A transformational hands-on leader capable of building organizations with cohesive cultures, increasing output and quality while reducing cost by building high-performing teams. 

Stash Wealth

Chief Technology Officer
January 2023 - Present

A demonstrated record of success at this boutique wealth management firm, marked by a 5% increase in revenue, increased influence, authority, and responsibility. Accountable for technology and operations. Valued for the ability to communicate with investors and executives, understand the company strategy, and deduce the implied tasks to deliver. 

  • Engaged VC and angel investors to pitch the company during its pre-seed raise and provide updates to existing investors. 

  • Orchestrated and executed technology initiatives to align the technical strategy with the vision of the company. 

  • Design, develop, and deploy core software product used by clients to manage their financial assets. 

  • Initiate the development of a groundbreaking financial planning solution using generative AI (ChatGPT). 

Wonder Cave

Chief Technology Officer
2021 - 2023

Led vision, strategy, and execution for all facets of technology, with authority over architecture, engineering, and support of digital systems. Served as the architect of a strategic capital plan and technology roadmaps designed to achieve all business targets including 400% in annual growth for the first year, and 20% years after, with a target of $50MM in revenue. 

  • Launched an Executive Governance Committee dedicated to driving engagement and strategic alignment. 

  • Lowered operational costs across people, vendors, and technology, resulting in a 20% increase to EBITA. 

  • Delivered multi-tenant high-volume SaaS platform that generated $50MM in revenue. 

  • Defined performance metrics for overall goals of projects in line with business strategy. 

  • Successfully met aggressive product launch cycles, directing offshore, nearshore, and in-house teams. 

Slalom

DIRECTOR, sOFTWARE 
2021 - 2023

Leveraged a consultative approach to gain insight into the requirements and challenges facing executive leaders at client organizations leading to the recommendation of solutions to maximize client-based ROI. Led the interview, hiring, and mentoring of technical architects and managers with expertise in engineering, development, and cloud architecture. 

  • Engaged with senior executives to shape consulting deals and staff large projects. 

  • Negotiate pricing structures and rate cards with potential clients. 

  • Delivered innovative cloud-native platform for a leading fast-serv restaurant, leveraging a voice-enabled, AI powered solution to significantly increase sales throughput for a high-volume location. 

  • Served as the Transformation Lead to a strategic client, innovating an approach to increase supply chain elasticity with the world leader in digital supply chain transformations and omni-channel commerce fulfillment. 

  • Director, Software Engineering – The Remi Group

  • Director, Application Development – Levvel

  • Lead Software Developer – Adhesion Wealth Advisor Solutions

  • Web Developer – Baker & Tayler

  • Software Engineer – Qualitech Solutions

  • Application Developer – Pinstripe, Inc

Early Career

Military Service

Signal Specialist – Fort Gordon, United States Army National Guard, Augusta GA 

Education

American Public University, Charles Town, WV –
Bachelor of Science, Information Technology 

Technical Skills

  • AWS / Azure Cloud Architecture 

  • TypeScript / JavaScript 

  • React 

  • Angular

  • RDBMS: Postgres / MySQL 

  • NoSQL: DynamoDb / MongoDb 

  • C# .NET / ASP.NET 

  • Serverless

  • Node

  • MySQL

  • ChatGPT

  • CSS/Saas

Let’s Work Together

I am a believer in dreaming big, and achieving those dreams through vigorous passion, dedication and hard work. I like exploring the unknown, solving problems that no one else has, and sharing those experiences with everyone.