Summary
Andy Vadnais is a Staff Sales Engineer with eight years of experience blending software development and customer-facing roles to drive AI knowledge infrastructure and cloud adoption at enterprise scale. He moved fluidly between engineering and sales—software developer at Hitachi Vantara, AE and SE roles at Datadog, Solutions Architect for AWS Startups, and now leading technical engagements at Stack Overflow—bringing both product empathy and commercial acumen. Comfortable translating complex architectures into business outcomes, he specializes in observability, cloud-native systems, and generative AI knowledge stacks. Based in Pittsford, NY, Andy pairs a BS in Computer Science with hands-on implementation experience, which helps him bridge engineers and decision-makers to accelerate deployment and value realization. Less obvious: his career path intentionally alternates technical and sales disciplines, giving him a rare double-lens perspective that speeds technical buy-in and shortens deal cycles.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science at State University of New York at Oswego
Engineering, Engineering at Onondaga Community College
English, French