Summary
Andy Gaskell is a Lead Software Engineer specializing in agentic AI with 11+ years building scalable, production-grade systems across cloud, embedded, and frontend stacks. He currently architects enterprise AI assistants and MCP gateway tooling at NextEra Analytics, improving query performance 70x and orchestrating multi-database agent tools with AWS BedrockAgentCore, FastAPI, and Vue.js. A pragmatic full‑stacker and founder of consultancy Zubago, he pairs infrastructure-as-code and async pipelines (SQS, DLQ) with developer productivity features like AI-assisted code review for GitLab. His background spans high-throughput migrations and reliability work—turning unreliable systems like ArcGIS Enterprise into dependable services—and prior roles at Best Buy, Credit Karma, and startups. Andy holds an MS in Artificial Intelligence from UT Austin and a separate MS in Computer Science, blending academic rigor with hands-on delivery. He’s notable for automating tool schema generation from Python docstrings and shipping real-time streaming chat experiences that bridge research-grade models and production constraints.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science - MS, Artificial Intelligence at The University of Texas at Austin
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Metro State University