
I'm Andrew.
I'm an Arizona based Lead AI/ML Engineer at General Atomics, where I lead the enterprise AI program — building secure LLM and agent platforms used by 10,000+ employees.
In my free time, you can catch me playing with my cats, exploring nature, or golfing.
About

About me
I'm an Arizona-based Lead AI/ML Engineer at General Atomics, where I lead the enterprise AI program for a defense company — a long way from the psychology degree I started with at UC Santa Barbara. Over the past five years I've worked across technology and infrastructure, and I'm finishing a Master's in Computer Science at Georgia Tech along the way. Today I design and ship secure, cost-effective LLM agent platforms on AWS and Azure (certified in both), using orchestration frameworks like LangGraph and Semantic Kernel and agent protocols like MCP and A2A.
- Location:Arizona
- Nationality:American (US Citizen)
- Interests:Camping, Motorsports, Golf
- Study:Georgia Tech & University of California, Santa Barbara
- Employment:General Atomics
Resume
Work
Lead AI/ML Engineer
As the Lead AI/ML Engineer at General Atomics, I lead the enterprise AI program and serve as the organization's subject-matter expert on LLMs — designing, building, and shipping secure generative-AI platforms that transform company operations.
- Avoided $15M/yr in spend with an in-house, DoD-compliant enterprise AI chatbot (AWS Bedrock, Azure AI Foundry, LiteLLM) — now serving 5,000+ monthly and 1,000+ daily active users.
- Achieved 4x workflow efficiency for 10,000+ users with a self-service RAG platform built on Azure AI Search, AWS RDS PostgreSQL, and Python.
- Cut technical order development time by 40% with agentic search and generation powered by GraphRAG on Amazon OpenSearch, Amazon Neptune, and AWS Bedrock.
- Cut deployment time from days to minutes through infrastructure-as-code with Terraform/Terragrunt and GitHub Actions CI/CD.
- Eliminated 90% of manual processing across key workflows with autonomous multi-agent systems built on Azure Durable Functions, Python, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, and the Claude SDK.
- Boosted developer productivity by 30% by rolling out AI development tools and integrating them into the SDLC while maintaining security and trustworthiness.
Systems Administrator
As a Systems Administrator, I modernized the company's IT infrastructure — bringing DevOps and Agile practices to automate, innovate, and quickly generate value for 15,000+ end users.
- Automated software request and deployment processes for endpoints using JFrog Artifactory.
- Replaced a manual iOS app build and signing process with GitLab CI/CD, cutting build and signing time from hours to minutes.
IT Strategic Analyst
As an IT Strategic Analyst, I wore three hats — helpdesk, systems administrator, and automation engineer — anticipating end-user needs and shipping durable solutions that automated the IT function from the inside.
- Reduced onboarding and offboarding time by 90% by automating account provisioning across all company applications.
- Implemented a centralized MuleSoft API management system, improving API discoverability, security, and auditability.
- Developed internal tools using Python and JavaScript that significantly improved team efficiency.
Compliance & Marketing Consultant
At Reynolds & Reynolds, our clients were car dealerships across the country. I audited dealership compliance across local, state, federal, and corporate authorities and advised clients on marketing strategy.
- Managed a territory of 100+ clients generating $1M+ in annual sales.
- Resolved compliance failures quickly and advised clients on preventing future violations.
- Supported client marketing strategy and content creation alongside the compliance practice.
Education
Master's - Computer Science
Bachelor's - Psychology
Skills
Certifications

AWS Solutions Architect Associate
Amazon Web Services
2024
HashiCorp Terraform Associate
HashiCorp
2023
Azure AI Engineer
Microsoft
2025
Check out some of my work
Get in touch.
Open to interesting problems in AI and infrastructure — reach out through the form or directly by email.
- [email protected]
- Github
- manwithaplandy




