Andy Cowell
Lead Cloud Engineer at KnoxDevs
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndy Cowell is a Lead Cloud Engineer with over 11 years of experience transforming legacy operations into cloud-native, automated platforms across media and enterprise environments. He has led teams at Scripps/Discovery and as an AWS Senior Solutions Architect to modernize CI/CD, containerization, and serverless architectures, driving measurable savings like a $100K annual developer-time reduction. Comfortable as a developer, systems, network, and cloud engineer, he combines hands-on technical depth with people-first leadership that builds capable, cross-functional teams. Based in Knoxville, Tennessee, Andy is skilled at resolving complex infrastructure trade-offs (e.g., Terraform vs. CloudFormation, ECS vs. Kubernetes) and embedding engineers with product teams to accelerate delivery. He thrives on tackling hard technical problems and turning new cloud capabilities into tangible customer benefits.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS Math/Computer Science, BS Math/Computer Science at Rhodes CollegeComputer Science MS program, Computer Science MS program at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Github Skills (39)
quest10
confluence10
atlassian10
crowd10
wrapper10
jira9
bamboo9
graph9
rest9
api9
aws-app-mesh8
python8
bitbucket8
terraform8
infrastructure-as-code7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
vt102/knoxdevs.github.io
Jun 2018 - May 2022
Test site for KnoxDevs
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
knoxdevs
vt102/ecr-test
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:47 pushes, 1 branch in 15 days
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