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

The Launch of Viva Printworks

Posted on Sun 21 May 2023 in Side Activities • Tagged with meta, viva printworks

The start of a new project is always exciting. This project is a brand new business: Viva Printworks!


Review of Unreal Engine 5 Generative Motion Graphics VFX Course

Posted on Fri 14 April 2023 in Review • Tagged with review, technical, learning, unreal engine

A review of the Udemy course: Unreal Engine 5 | Generative Motion Graphics / VFX


Review of Learn How To Make A 2D Platformer In Unreal Engine 5 Course

Posted on Tue 11 April 2023 in Review • Tagged with review, technical, learning, unreal engine

A review of the Udemy course: Learn How To Make A 2D Platformer In Unreal Engine 5


Review of DaVinci Resolve 2022: Beginner to Advanced in DaVinci 18 Course

Posted on Fri 03 March 2023 in Review • Tagged with review, technical, learning

A review of the Udemy course: DaVinci Resolve 2022 Beginner to Advanced in DaVinci 18


Automatically checking for broken links using Github Actions

Posted on Mon 13 February 2023 in Side Activities • Tagged with technical, Pelican, meta

This blog is over a decade old with over 100 posts. This post covers my recent work to find links that have broken so that I can fix them quickly.


CoderByte assessments fall to ChatGPT

Posted on Sat 04 February 2023 in Technical Solutions • Tagged with technical, job search, chatgpt, ai interviews

CoderByte falls to ChatGPT just like the more well known interview assessment platforms. Here's my run down, and how I used ChatGPT to solve an easy, medium and hard problem in less than 5 minutes total.


Review of GitLab's 'TeamOps Certification' course

Posted on Thu 02 February 2023 in Review • Tagged with review, technical, learning

I've passed GitLab's TeamOps certification course. This is a review of the course.


Updating PHP and NextCloud

Posted on Mon 30 January 2023 in Technical Solutions • Tagged with technical

Nearly five years ago I installed NextCloud. This article talks about the challenges I faced updating to a new version of PHP for a modern version of NextCloud.


ChatGPT easily solves HackerRank questions

Posted on Sun 08 January 2023 in Technical Solutions • Tagged with technical, job search, chatgpt, ai interviews

HackerRank is a common tool companies use in interviews. This post continues the series on how ChatGPT can solve these interview problems.


Taking Codility's sample interview exam using ChatGPT

Posted on Thu 05 January 2023 in Technical Solutions • Tagged with technical, job search, chatgpt, ai interviews

I'm continuing my look at technical interview exam questions, this time with Codility, and using ChatGPT to show the process needs to change