Who am I?

My name is Andy Wegner.

I lead, grow and mentor engineering teams in many industries. I've worked as VP of Software Engineering at a telecommunications company, Director of Engineering at a transportation logistics company and at a company working to improve the hiring process for engineers. I've been an individual contributor at a large manuafacturing company. I've built global teams of engineers and delivered solutions that impact customers worldwide. I've personally built software that covers every aspect of a product's lifecycle in multiple industries.

I am the owner of Viva Printworks (with my wife!), where we create custom designs to put on products. In the future I expect I'll have some posts here about what happens behind the scenes too, to make it successful.

I was the community owner of Team Vipers for 5 years. Vipers was a gaming community, focused mainly around Team Fortress 2, but we dabbled in other games for brief periods of time. I helped the community prosper. I also built a lot of software to help me in managing the community.

I am an elected Moderator on Stack Overflow and participate across the rest of the Stack Exchange network. I moderate Community Building and Hardware Recommendations as well. I've also built a few tools to help keep the low quality content off the Stack Exchange network.


Recent Posts

Controlling power to LED lights with WLED Controller and a Relay switch

Posted on Fri 16 August 2024 in Technical Solutions • Tagged with technical, wled

Wiring a lot of LEDs requires more power than the small WLED controller can handle, but leaving a large power supply running even when the lights are off is inefficient. This post talks about the progress on the project and how I wired in a relay to keep everything running efficiently.


Setting up and updating the Ericsity WLED Controller from 0.13.3 to 0.14.1

Posted on Thu 20 June 2024 in Technical Solutions • Tagged with technical, wled

The Ericsity WLED controller comes with WLED 0.13.3 preinstalled and only offers the ability to update to 0.13.4. This walks through setting up the controller for the first time and moving to 0.14.1 while maintaining the sound reactive features the controller advertises.


Python Gotcha: strip, lstrip, rstrip can remove more than expected

Posted on Fri 29 March 2024 in Technical Solutions • Tagged with technical

The Python strip, lstrip, and rstrip functions can have unexpected behavior. Even though this is documented, non-default values passed to these functions can lead to unexpected results and how Python 3.9 solved this with two new functions.


Installing the Mobile Security Framework (MobSF) on Windows using Docker

Posted on Mon 19 February 2024 in Technical Solutions • Tagged with technical

A short article on installing the Mobile Security Framework on Windows utilizing Docker and then using it to quickly analyze an APK.


Review of Data Analysis with Polars Udemy course

Posted on Mon 29 January 2024 in Review • Tagged with review, technical, learning

A review of the Udemy course: Data Analysis with Polars


Review of Learn Data Analytics with Polars (Python) Course

Posted on Thu 25 January 2024 in Review • Tagged with review, technical, learning

A review of the Udemy course: Learn Data Analytics with Polars (Python) in just 2 hours!


Review of Learn Github Actions for CI/CD DevOps Pipelines Course

Posted on Mon 22 January 2024 in Review • Tagged with review, technical, learning

A review of the Udemy course: Learn Github Actions for CI/CD DevOps Pipelines


Python Gotcha: Modifying a list while iterating

Posted on Wed 03 January 2024 in Technical Solutions • Tagged with technical

Python makes it easy to modify a list while you are iterating through it's elements. This will bite you. Read on to find out how and what can be done about it.


Python Gotcha: List Copy Problems

Posted on Wed 20 December 2023 in Technical Solutions • Tagged with technical

Copying a Python list (or any mutable object) isn't as simple as setting one equal to another. Let's discuss a better way to do this.


A Decade of Fighting Spam

Posted on Mon 27 November 2023 in Side Activities • Tagged with Stack Exchange, moderation

A run down of what a decade of spam fighting looks like on the Stack Exchange network.