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

Third time's the charm?

Posted on Sun 06 November 2016 in Side Activities • Tagged with Stack Exchange, moderation

It's been a year since Stack Overflow's last election. I'm running again. Will the third time be the charm, or third strike and I'm out?


My experiences releasing a package to PyPI

Posted on Tue 15 March 2016 in Technical Solutions • Tagged with technical

I released StackAPI to PyPI. This post talks about my experiences.


How I built a Flask application that integrates with Travis CI and OpenShift

Posted on Fri 11 December 2015 in Technical Solutions • Tagged with technical

A walkthrough on how I set up a Flask application on OpenShift and used TravisCI to deploy it


I'm running for moderator on Stack Overflow again

Posted on Wed 18 November 2015 in Side Activities • Tagged with Stack Exchange, moderation

Stack Overflow is having a second election this year. I'm throwing my hat in the ring again. This entry follows the process.


How not to recruit me

Posted on Sat 10 October 2015 in Jobs • Tagged with meta, job

In which I discuss ways not to send me a recruitment message if you are interested in me working for you


Link Analysis - Technical Explanation

Posted on Mon 10 August 2015 in Side Activities • Tagged with Stack Exchange, programming

Approximately 10% of links on the Stack Overflow are unavailable. This is an analysis of how I determined thiat and a discussion on how to improve it


A proposal to fix broken links on Stack Overflow

Posted on Fri 07 August 2015 in Side Activities • Tagged with Stack Exchange, programming

My proposal to decrease the number of broken links on Stack Overflow


Analysis of links posted to Stack Overflow

Posted on Thu 06 August 2015 in Side Activities • Tagged with Stack Exchange, programming

Approximately 10% of on Stack Overflow are unavailable. This is an analysis of how I determined that and a discussion on how to improve it.


How I set up this site with GitHub Pages and CloudFlare

Posted on Thu 09 July 2015 in Side Activities • Tagged with Meta, technical, Pelican

This post provides a brief description of how I set up the web site to utilize GitHub Pages and CloudFlare and eliminated my self hosting


Why I moved from Wordpress to Pelican

Posted on Sun 03 May 2015 in Side Activities • Tagged with Meta, Pelican

A brief summary of why I dropped Wordpress and moved to Pelican