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 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

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


I'm running to be a moderator of Stack Overflow

Posted on Mon 06 April 2015 in Side Activities • Tagged with Stack Exchange, moderation

I'm running for a Stack Overflow moderator position in April 2015. This entry follows the election process.


Zephyr - The bot that watches for low quality vote requests

Posted on Thu 12 March 2015 in Programming Projects • Tagged with Stack Exchange, automation, programming

Find out about the bot that watches Stack Exchange chat rooms for requests to close low quality content


Thanks for all the fish

Posted on Thu 08 January 2015 in Vipers • Tagged with team vipers

Good bye, Team Vipers, it's been a great 6 years


Can a machine be taught to flag comments automatically

Posted on Fri 02 January 2015 in Programming Projects • Tagged with Stack Exchange, machine learning, automation, programming

Description of how I automatically flag comments on Stack Overflow


Moderation postion on Moderators

Posted on Wed 02 July 2014 in Side Activities • Tagged with Stack Exchange, moderation

I've thrown my hat into the ring for a moderation position on Stack Exchange's newest site: Moderators