Andrew Lavoie
Solutions Engineering Leader · GenAI Architect
Lifelong tinkerer who never stopped writing code
10+ years across enterprise presales, consulting, and delivery for Fortune 500 and US Public Sector clients. Builder of production GenAI solutions across the full LLM stack — eval, inference, orchestration. Grounded in a career of networking, Linux, and cloud infrastructure. M.S. Cybersecurity. USAF veteran.
Projects
Legacy Application Modernization
Architected LLM-powered workflows and agents that modernize COBOL mainframe applications into reactive web applications — automated documentation generation, code translation, and code review. AWS environment management (Gitea + Grafana).
Application Analysis with GenAI
Total owner from presales through delivery. Used Claude Code and Continue.dev to document complete application architecture and dataflow for a routing/dispatch system lift-and-shifted to cloud without a functional baseline. Proved system functionality to stakeholders and converted into a follow-on contract.
Contract Analysis Automation
Built an LLM-based system for Statement of Work validation — comparing contractor deliverables against requirements with automated compliance scoring.
Document Intelligence
Implemented a multimodal LLM solution for standardizing college transcript data extraction in an end-to-end automation pipeline (UiPath RPA connecting services).
DISA Regression Testing Automation
Engineered ISP solutions for WAN replication to test protocol interop between Cisco and Juniper devices (MPLS L3VPN/L2VPN, BGP). Led team to build an automation solution that cut test time from 12 weeks to 8 hours.
LLM Propensity-to-Buy Dashboard
Hand-selected participant in a 48-hour MongoDB hackathon (team of 8, North America). Built a Streamlit dashboard integrating Salesforce, Chorus, and a company data lake — linear regression + LLM narrative to surface customers most likely to purchase Atlas Search.
Experience
Director of Solutions Engineering
Grew GenAI practice from $600K → $3.2M. Led presales and post-sales for 3 AEs, 1 CSM, 4 delivery leads, 32 consultants.
Senior Solutions Architect — DoD & Federal Civilian
Database expert for public sector enterprise accounts across DoD, SLED, and Fed Civilian segments.
Presales Technical Consultant — DoD
RPA sales engineer for Army and Navy strategic accounts.
Midmarket Solution Architect
Mid Market SA Rookie of the Year FY2020. 275% Single Year Bookings attainment.
Network Consulting Engineer
Solutions design and validation for US Public Sector federal agencies in unclassified and IL5 environments.
Senior Network Engineer, 83rd NOS
99.999% uptime across $10B mission-critical infrastructure at 128 locations. Technical SME for Cisco routing and BGP/OSPF.
What I'm Reading
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick
Neuromancer
William Gibson
Artemis
Andy Weir