Summary
Andrew Woods is a Senior DevOps Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and operating cloud-native, AI-ready systems, currently leading AWS architecture and migration efforts for NextGen Healthcare's revenue cycle management platform. He specializes in secure, serverless deployments and automated CI/CD pipelines, pairing deep AWS service knowledge (Lambda, API Gateway, WAF, KMS, Secrets Manager) with cost optimization and monitoring at scale. Previously at UnitedHealth Group he championed DevOps adoption, built CI/CD and Terraform automation for Azure, and ran organization-wide GitHub and Jenkins governance—bridging engineering practice with operational rigor. His background in data engineering and business intelligence informs pragmatic solutions that align technical automation with measurable business outcomes. Based in the Denver area, he combines healthcare systems domain experience with a strong academic foundation (BBA and MS in Information Systems) and a knack for turning complex compliance and security requirements into repeatable, auditable workflows. An underrated strength: he consistently translates cross-functional needs into scalable infra-as-code patterns that reduce manual toil and accelerate delivery.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Management Information Systems, General, Major: 4.0/4.0; Overall: 3.6/4.0, Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Management Information Systems, General, Major: 4.0/4.0; Overall: 3.6/4.0 at Middle Tennessee State University
Study Abroad Business Program - Globalization Concentration, Study Abroad Business Program - Globalization Concentration at Chung Yuan Christian University