Andres Fuentes
Engineering Leader | AI‑Driven Technologist | Mentor & Coach | Helping Teams Navigate Modern Engineering
- Role
- VP of Software Engineering at Ai Grants
- Location
- Austin, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Andres Fuentes
Engineering Team Leader with 15+ years of experience spanning QA org-building, distributed systems, and engineering leadership across SaaS and product companies. Deep background in Kafka, event-driven architectures, Node.js, TypeScript, Python, Java.NET, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP). Consistent record of platform modernization, team scaling, and cost reduction at companies including HEB, Blackbaud, Shippo, and Dealerware. Active practitioner of AI tooling in daily workflow — building on the Anthropic API and staying current with agentic patterns. Experienced in technical leadership, mentoring, cross-team alignment, and driving engineering strategy from team to organizational level.
Experience
VP of Software Engineering
Oct 2024 — Present
Building and scaling a high-performing engineering organization from the ground up — spanning recruitment, onboarding, technical mentorship, and team development.Partnering directly with executive leadership to define the technical roadmap and drive successful execution of the company\'s inaugural product launch.Providing end-to-end engineering leadership across day-to-day operations, strategic planning, and long-term organizational vision.
Education
Austin Community College
Computer Science
2006 — 2007
Skills
- Test Cases
- Social Games
- Software Quality Assurance
- Perforce
- Game Development
- Team Management
- Video Games
- Multiplayer
- QA Management
- Mmorpg
- Unreal Editor
- Test Planning
- Game Design
- Quality Assurance
- Xml
- Scrum
- Html
- Agile Methodologies
- Jira
- Xbox 360
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