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Andrew Hyte is an AI Architect at Fishbowl Inventory, working in the IT department leading a new AI Ops team. His charter is to make advanced AI accessible across the company, giving technical and non-technical employees the same caliber of AI tooling an engineer uses.

Before that move, as Principal AI Engineer, Andrew built AI coding tools and workflows across Product and Engineering: a Claude Code agentic coding pipeline, MCP-based context and integration servers, context engineering systems that turn stakeholder requirements into agent-ready work, and LLM evaluation loops that verify quality before human review. Adoption was broad, with productivity gains visible in GitLab commit activity improving across the team.

That success led to a company-wide mandate: define an AI Baseline that narrows the divide between AI haves and have-nots inside the company. Andrew designed the platform as Policy, Kernel, Services, Shells, and Apps, with an Equity Lane separating centrally funded baseline access from an opt-in AI Power tier for technical roles.

Promoted from Software Engineering Manager and Senior Software Engineer, Andrew previously architected Fishbowl's production MicroFrontend solution with SingleSPA, unifying products built in React and Angular, and won the company-wide Applied AI Hackathon as team lead by building a conversational agent with an MCP server that automated common user workflows in two days. He led a 20-member pod as Scrum Master and drove adoption of cutting-edge AI coding tools across engineering. His recent AI platform work includes the Atlas federated MCP connector framework, where the first Salesforce connector was reduced to a roughly 1KB declarative definition, an 87% code reduction covered by 280+ TDD tests.

Before Fishbowl, as Lead Frontend Engineer at ON Platform (GameOn), he shipped a B2B portal for customizing conversational AI chatbots and built a no-code Canvas drag-and-drop reply-flow editor, while optimizing CI/CD with Vite, Netlify, and GitHub Actions.

Earlier roles at Bark Technologies and Router Limits saw him leading integration and development projects in fast-paced environments. His software journey began at the Missionary Training Center, where he built a missionary chat app and honed his engineering skills.

Outside of work, Andrew enjoys hiking, skiing, and spending time with his wife and two kids. A hands-on builder, he's always working on new projects—ask him about his latest carpentry endeavor.