Meet Andrew

Andrew Birkholz is Chief Technology Officer at Mechanism Ventures, where he leads the Product practice and builds the AI and automation that help the studio launch and scale companies with small, high-leverage teams. A hands-on engineer and two-time founder, he brings 15+ years of product, architecture, and startup experience to every portfolio company.
Andrew Birkholz
Chief Technology Officer

HIGHLIGHTS

Engineering Manager
Gaming
2018 - 2019
Technical Strategy & Architecture
Media & Entertainment
2018
Solutions Architect
Enterprise Technology
2016

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Andrew is a builder at heart: an engineer who still writes code, a product leader who obsesses over the user, and a founder who has taken products from blank page to market. Across 15+ years he has led countless product launches reaching millions of users and led engineering for brands including Riot Games, HBO, Dell Technologies, and S&P Global.

At tap|QA, he joined as employee #3 and rose to Head of Delivery and Principal Architect, helping scale the firm to 250+ consultants while leading 50+ engagements and managing over 200 people.

At PinkLion, he co-founded an AI developer-tools company as CTO, building ML products for engineering teams at Uber, Epic Games, Google Play, Microsoft Xbox, and more before the company was acquired.

At RedRex, he co-founded and led as CEO a blockchain-powered loyalty platform, backed by gener8tor, a top-five U.S. accelerator, raising $2M, building and leading a global team and taking the product to 100K+ users.

At Mechanism, Andrew leads AI across the studio and its portfolio, building the systems, automation, and product engineering that let a company launch at the press of a button and then run itself with a fraction of the usual overhead.

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