Andrew Giessel is the Executive Director of AI Engineering at Moderna, where he leads a team of software engineers building a platform that enables their developers and data scientists to solve a diverse set of science, business, and engineering problems. While at Moderna, he and his teams have helped the company grow from a 300 employee start-up to a commercial organization producing hundreds of millions of vaccine doses all over the world. Prior to Moderna, Andrew earned a Ph.D. and did postdoc in the Neurobiology department at Harvard Medical School. Andrew lives in the Boston area with his family.