Experience
11+ years across project management, operations, sales, and engineering.
Drew Garman is an AI engineer with 11+ years of professional experience. Currently independent, building AI agent infrastructure and shipping client websites. Previously at Rackspace Technology (sales pipeline management) and TEKsystems (technical recruiting). ASU graduate. Led fundraising for AZLoop (SpaceX Hyperloop Competition, 4th place).
Forward Deployed Engineer
— Independent / Garman Unified Systems2025 – Present
Building practical AI systems across shipped products, client work, and local-first infrastructure. The work sits where software meets real operations: auth, email, documents, routing, and debugging the parts demos skip.
- • Delivered borussiaminerals.com for a paying client — e-commerce, 3D Gaussian-splat viewer, Stripe — solo
- • Designed and operate a 4-node local AI fleet for local/cloud routing, governance hooks, and agent workflow testing
- • Shipped familyrecipebox.org with real users; diagnosed and fixed ISP-scanner magic-link production bug
- • Built Abledumb as an AI-assisted music workstation where local models handle routine tasks when they fit
Automation Engineer
2025
Engineering & automation specialist.
Sales Pipeline Project Manager
— Rackspace Technology2022 – 2023
Managed sales pipeline operations and project delivery for enterprise cloud solutions. Led weekly reporting for marketing team and 3 SDR teams, trained all new hires, and managed SLA follow-ups across cross-functional teams.
Technical Recruiter
— TEKsystems2023 – 2024
Deep understanding of tech hiring from the recruiter side.
Business Team Lead
— AZLoop — SpaceX Hyperloop Competition2017
Led fundraising efforts ($200K raised), team placed 4th out of 24 international finalists.
Director of Operations
— AZ Infusions LLC2021 – 2022
Managed daily operations for an IV therapy business.
Education
Arizona State University
B.A., Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies
2015 – 2018
Scottsdale Community College
Business / HR Administration
2013 – 2015