Summary
Andrew Cooley is a GenAI Field Solutions Architect with eight years of hands-on experience designing and deploying data + AI solutions across cloud platforms, now advising strategic pursuits at Google Cloud from Dallas. He has a strong track record leading LLM, LLMOps, and MLOps initiatives for Fortune-scale retail and telecom customers, including driving material GCP AI/ML consumption growth and supporting $1B+ enterprise commitments. Prior roles at Databricks and AWS highlight his ability to translate complex ML research into reproducible, production-ready architectures and reusable assets for global field teams. He blends deep technical fluency in cloud-native stacks (Vertex AI, SageMaker, Databricks, Delta Lake) with sales engineering and pre/post-sales impact, often serving as the sole ML specialist on large accounts. Notably, he has repeatedly accelerated MLOps adoption at retail customers and led migrations of mission-critical data workloads from on-prem to cloud data platforms. He combines practitioner-level engineering with strategic customer-facing influence, making him effective at moving pilots to scale.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BBA Management Information Systems, BBA Management Information Systems at Texas McCombs School of Business