Summary
Andrew Dotson is a data engineering leader with eight years of hands-on experience building production ML and data systems, currently serving as Director at Koantek in the Atlanta metro area. He has driven performance improvements and productionalization efforts—most notably optimizing Spark jobs by up to 80% and shipping recommendation systems and microservice migrations to AWS. Comfortable bridging analytics and engineering, he has led ML engineering teams at White Cap and delivered full-stack data solutions as a senior engineer at Manheim. His academic background spans computer science and applied computing with extended study in Chinese, and he has practical translation and tutoring experience that reflects strong cross-cultural communication skills. That blend of math/physics grounding, Mandarin fluency, and proven operational delivery makes him effective at turning complex models into reliable, scalable pipelines.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Georgia Southern University
East Georgia State College
Master’s Degree Computer Applied Technology, Master’s Degree Computer Applied Technology at Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Chinese Language, Chinese Language at Central China Normal University
English, Chinese