Andrew Scardina

Product Manager & Designer

ABOUT ME

I'm an entrepreneurial product manager with 8+ years of product & design experience in fintech, crypto, saas, footwear & apparel and cybersecurity.

I’m passionate about building impactful digital products users love. Whether it's designing complex research and trading interfaces, leading successful strategic pivots, or building tools to help people acquire limited-edition sneakers — I have an instinct for creating value through monetizing emerging opportunities and solving customer problems.

I'm an entrepreneurial product manager with 8+ years of product & design experience in fintech, crypto, saas, footwear & apparel and cybersecurity.

I’m passionate about building impactful digital products users love. Whether it's designing complex research and trading interfaces, leading successful strategic pivots, or building tools to help people acquire limited-edition sneakers — I have an instinct for creating value through monetizing emerging opportunities and solving customer problems.

I'm an entrepreneurial product manager with 8+ years of product & design experience in fintech, crypto, saas, footwear & apparel and cybersecurity.

I’m passionate about building impactful digital products users love. Whether it's designing complex research and trading interfaces, leading successful strategic pivots, or building tools to help people acquire limited-edition sneakers — I have an instinct for creating value through monetizing emerging opportunities and solving customer problems.

Highlights

  • Co-founded and led product at Vyper, a crypto trading terminal that has processed $20M+ in trading volume (Acquired by Pumpfun)

  • Led a strategic pivot at Eversify, which resulted in $500k in month-one revenue for the first non-custodial cloud crypto trading terminal

  • Scaled Paradox, a Saas community from $0 to $25k MRR in 6 months

  • Paid off student loans with $100k earned from reselling sneakers in college

SIDE QUESTS

  • Turned sneaker botting experience into a cybersecurity startup. Pitched to VCs & industry veterans, and presented at ISSA conference on the cracked account economy and bot protection vulnerabilities.

  • Coded a customer service Discord bot that uses product docs to answer support tickets.

  • Designed a chrome extension that reduced NFT buying from 12 steps to one click (Acquired by Eversify).

  • Built a coupon code generator and web scraping monitor to arbitrage authentic limited-edition sneakers in China, then sold them in the US for profit.

  • Turned $3 into $1,500 trading virtual CS:GO skins in high school.