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

Rise Gardens Review

Posted on Fri 29 May 2020 in Review • Tagged with review, garden, hydroponics

The end of the series about Rise Gardens. What is my final opinion?


Rise Gardens App/Subscription Improvement suggestions

Posted on Sun 24 May 2020 in Review • Tagged with review, garden, hydroponics

Several suggestion for the Rise Gardens app, their subscription service and product as a whole.


Rise Gardens physical improvements suggestions

Posted on Tue 05 May 2020 in Review • Tagged with review, garden, hydroponics

Everything is set up and sprouting. While I'm waiting for a harvest, I have some thoughts on how to make the new garden even better.


Planting the first crop in the Rise Garden

Posted on Fri 01 May 2020 in Review • Tagged with review, garden, hydroponics

Planting the first crop in the garden


Assembling the Rise Garden

Posted on Sun 26 April 2020 in Review • Tagged with review, garden, hydroponics

Assemble the new Rise Garden


Unboxing garden nurseries

Posted on Fri 24 April 2020 in Review • Tagged with review, garden, hydroponics

With the garden unboxed, it's time to look at the nurseries. Our seed have to start growing somewhere.


Unboxing and reviewing the new indoor Rise Gardens hydroponic garden

Posted on Wed 22 April 2020 in Review • Tagged with review, garden, hydroponics

The garden has arrived! Time to open it up and see how it looks.


Review of Ultimate AWS Certified Developer Associate 2019 course

Posted on Mon 23 December 2019 in Review • Tagged with review, technical, learning

My review of the Ultimate AWS Certified Developer Associate course.


Setting up GitLab runners

Posted on Tue 22 October 2019 in Technical Solutions • Tagged with technical

How I set up a GitLab runner


Installing InvoiceNinja on Ubuntu 18.04

Posted on Tue 30 July 2019 in Technical Solutions • Tagged with technical

A brief walkthrough on how to install InvoiceNinja on Ubuntu 18.04