Golden Valley, MN · Principal, Technical Innovation

Andy Cohenbuilds the systems behind the systems.

Principal, Technical Innovation · Bullhorn. I work across AI, chat, digital workers, and the platform capabilities that turn emerging technology into software people can depend on.

Professional headshot photo of Andy Cohen
The interesting question isn’t what AI can generate. It’s what software can understand, anticipate, and do on someone’s behalf.

I've been building software since I was 8 years old, when I taught myself to code from the PC magazines my mom brought home from work. At 13, I ran 5:30 Departure, a Hermes BBS that connected people and moved software and ideas long before the web became part of everyday life. The technology has changed. The curiosity really hasn't.

An important early chapter of my career was in staffing software. At TempWorks, I built and shipped applicant tracking, time-management, and job-application systems while leading a development team. It taught me that the most valuable software is rarely technology for its own sake. It understands the work, removes friction, and helps people make better decisions.

At Sitecore, I became the founding architect of XM Cloud and helped take it from concept to a global SaaS platform. I led the architectural design, proof of concept, implementation, and production launch, then helped rework tenancy and infrastructure to save millions while advancing continuous delivery. It was a team effort, and it reinforced something I've seen throughout my career: durable products emerge when architecture, product thinking, and execution move together.

After Sitecore, my work at Altudo, Kajoo, and TechGuilds moved deeper into AI-augmented development and agentic orchestration. I focused on the architecture around the model: tools, state, workflow, verification, and the conditions that make emerging capabilities useful and trustworthy.

In July 2026, I returned to staffing technology as Principal, Technical Innovation at Bullhorn. I'm building on Bullhorn Amplify across AI, chat, digital workers, and the underlying platform capabilities that support them. It brings together the threads that have shaped my career: real operational workflows, enterprise platforms, developer experience, product design, and software that can increasingly act on a user's behalf.

Whether I'm working on a global cloud platform, a browser game, or a system that helps people get more meaningful work done, the mindset is the same: stay curious, understand the system, and build something that lasts.

Latest project

WOPR Terminal

A playable tribute to the games, modems, and early online communities that first pulled me into computing.

A personal investigation

Where the record ends.

I grew up as Andy Cohen, but I was born Shannon Jeremiah Meason.

Adoption was never a secret in my family. A lifelong curiosity about my biological lineage eventually became Where the Record Ends: an evidence-led investigation into the Meason family—what the records establish, what copied trees repeat, and what remains unknown.

Family atlas

Follow the documented line

Move through generations, relationships, places, and the evidence neighborhoods that connect them.

Explore the family

Family chronicle

Read the story the records can support

Trace the family across places and generations without smoothing over uncertainty or contradiction.

Read the chronicle

Open cases

See where the investigation is still alive

Examine competing explanations, unresolved questions, and the records that might move the research forward.

View the cases

The work

The recent arc.

From enterprise cloud platforms to agentic systems and back to staffing software — building products that ship and scale.

Jul 2026 - Present

Principal, Technical Innovation

Bullhorn

Working in technical innovation across Bullhorn Amplify, conversational AI, digital workers, and the underlying platform capabilities that support them. Helping shape software that understands staffing workflows, removes repetitive work, and acts on a user's behalf.

Oct 2025 - Jul 2026

Head of AI and Agentic Experience

Kajoo + TechGuilds

Led AI and agentic platform development with a focus on orchestration, applied AI systems, and products that ship. Advanced agent-driven workflows designed to reduce friction, create leverage, and scale.

Sep 2024 - Oct 2025

Vice President | Chief Architect

Altudo

Led the evolution of content management systems in the Age of AI. Built momentum in the DXP space, from FastLane for XM Cloud to workflows that helped teams move faster and with more intent.

May 2024 - Sep 2024

Senior Director, Engineering – XM Cloud

Sitecore

Directed the engineering roadmap and architecture for Sitecore XM Cloud, achieving substantial cost optimizations while scaling the system to serve enterprise clients globally.

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