Who am I?

My name is Andy Wegner.

I lead, grow and mentor engineering teams in many industries. I'm currently VP of Strategic Software at a telecommunications company. I've worked as VP of Software Engineering at another telecom 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 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 am a former moderator on 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

Review of Udemy's Django Course from Basics to Advance

Posted on Tue 20 February 2018 in Review • Tagged with review, technical, learning

My review of the Django Course from Basics to Advance course on Udemy.


Setting up a ZFS pool on Ubuntu 16.04

Posted on Thu 15 February 2018 in Technical Solutions • Tagged with technical

With the backup server assembled, it's time to start configuring it. This post covers setting up the ZFS pool for all the data


...and then there was a backup server

Posted on Mon 12 February 2018 in Side Activities • Tagged with technical

Technical discussion about the new backup server


Well, there goes my data...

Posted on Sat 27 January 2018 in Side Activities • Tagged with technical

Learn from my mistake and test your backups


How I found an awesome remote only job

Posted on Tue 28 November 2017 in Jobs • Tagged with job, technical

A brief walkthrough of my job hunting process


Review of Udemy's AWS Serverless APIs & Apps - A Complete Introduction course

Posted on Fri 20 October 2017 in Review • Tagged with review, technical, learning

My review of the AWS Serverless APIs & Apps course on Udemy.


Collecting Diamonds on Stack Exchange

Posted on Fri 18 August 2017 in Side Activities • Tagged with Stack Exchange, moderation

I've picked up a couple moderation diamonds recently. A reflection on the Stack Overflow election.


A reflection on my decade at Caterpillar

Posted on Mon 31 July 2017 in Jobs • Tagged with job

My career at Caterpillar has come to an end. This is a reflection on the last decade.


Review of Udemy's Python and Django Full Stack Web Developer Bootcamp course

Posted on Wed 28 June 2017 in Review • Tagged with review, technical, learning

My review of the Python and Django Full Stack Web Developer Bootcamp course on Udemy.


Stack Overflow's Problem - Feedback from an experienced user

Posted on Mon 22 May 2017 in Side Activities • Tagged with Stack Exchange

Stack Overflow has made several poor decisions in the past few years. I have feedback as an experienced community member on how those decisions are perceived