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

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


Running CodeSignal questions through ChatGPT

Posted on Sun 01 January 2023 in Technical Solutions • Tagged with technical, job search, chatgpt, ai interviews

I am going to examine four sample CodeSignal questions and show how ChatGPT solves the problems.


Breaking TestGorilla interview questions with ChatGPT

Posted on Mon 26 December 2022 in Technical Solutions • Tagged with technical, job search, chatgpt, ai interviews

Using ChatGPT, I'm going to solve a couple interview questions from TestGorilla quickly, easily and with nothing more than copying and pasting.


Using ChatGPT to interact with an API

Posted on Tue 20 December 2022 in Technical Solutions • Tagged with technical, chatgpt

I'm going to take ChatGPT for a spin against an API that I know. Let's see what it's capable of producing.