Summary
Randall Potter is a Senior Solutions Architect with 17 years of experience building resilient, cloud-native systems and leading high-performing engineering organizations. Now at AWS, he blends deep hands-on expertise in AWS, Docker, microservices, CI/CD, streaming data and NLP with a proven ability to recruit, mentor, and scale teams that deliver stable, performant platforms. His career at CNN included founding the Data Intelligence department, architecting low-latency NLP and analytics APIs (one winning a Digiday award), and driving company-wide eventing and load-testing initiatives for major live events. Known for marrying technical rigor with candid, career-focused culture building, he consistently turns complex requirements into production-ready solutions across content platforms, first-party data pipelines, and ML operations. Based in Atlanta, he brings both startup agility (as a former founder) and enterprise-grade delivery to solve data and content challenges at scale.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Information Studies, Information Studies at Florida State University
AA, Computer Networking and Administration / E-Commerce / Design, AA, Computer Networking and Administration / E-Commerce / Design at Tallahassee Community College
English