Summary
Andy 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 College
Computer Science MS program, Computer Science MS program at University of Tennessee, Knoxville