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Andrew Coover
Technical Co-Founder at Push Cash
Andrew Coover is a Co-Founder and Technical Co-Founder of Push Cash, a startup focused on building a new payments platform.12 He began his role at Push Cash in April 2023, after working as a Staff Software Engineer at Plaid from December 2019 to April 2023.2
Professional Background
Education:: Andrew holds a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Vanderbilt University, which he completed between 2009 and 2013.2
Work Experience::
- Prior to co-founding Push Cash, Andrew worked at Plaid, where he was involved in improving system reliability and stability, as well as evolving products to support different models and integrations with financial institutions for executing transactions.1
- Before Plaid, Andrew spent over 6 years (July 2013 to December 2019) as a Software Engineer at Yelp, where he contributed to building Yelp's Local Services and Messaging products.23
Skills and Expertise
Andrew is described as someone who "loves clean code and building bullet proof products".3 His experience includes:
- Backend development, primarily working with Python2
- System reliability and stability improvements
- Product evolution and integration with financial institutions
- Payments technology, particularly from his time at Plaid where he worked on Plaid Transfer3
Role at Push Cash
At Push Cash, Andrew serves as the Technical Co-Founder, bringing his expertise in payments and software engineering to build a new kind of payments platform.34 The company aims to provide high-performing, instant, and easy-to-use transfers for users.3
Andrew, along with his co-founder Eric Morse, is working to create a payments solution that offers features such as guaranteed transaction authorization rates, high daily transaction limits, and instant payments for a large percentage of U.S. checking accounts.34