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

Updating PHP from 7.1 to 7.3 on Ubuntu 18.04

Posted on Fri 26 July 2019 in Technical Solutions • Tagged with technical

A brief walkthrough on how to upgrade PHP to 7.3 (and make sure NextCloud still works)


Review of Travis CI Tutorial Udemy course

Posted on Tue 09 July 2019 in Review • Tagged with review, technical, learning

My review of the Travis CI Tutorial course on Udemy.


Review of Software Testing Masterclass (2019) - From Notice to Expert Udemy course

Posted on Tue 14 May 2019 in Review • Tagged with review, technical, learning

My review of the Software Testing Masterclass course on Udemy.


Stack Overflow still has issues and it's getting worse

Posted on Fri 29 March 2019 in Side Activities • Tagged with Stack Exchange

A follow up from a post I made a year and a half ago. How's Stack Overflow doing (from the perspective of a long time community member and moderator)?


Upgrading the home network to use Ubiquiti products

Posted on Wed 13 March 2019 in Technical Solutions • Tagged with technical

My home network received a major upgrade. This post covers the new hardware and impressions a month after the upgrade.


Fixing XPS 13 (Ubuntu) and Thunder Bolt 16 issue after BIOS update

Posted on Thu 31 January 2019 in Technical Solutions • Tagged with technical

Updating BIOS using a Dell provided update broke how my Thunder Bolt dock and XPS interacted. This is how I fixed it.


Review of Sanic - An Asynchronous Web Framework for Pythonistas Udemy course

Posted on Wed 23 January 2019 in Review • Tagged with review, technical, learning

My review of the Sanic Web Framework fro Pythonistas course on Udemy.


Autobuild and Deploy this Pelican Blog

Posted on Thu 15 November 2018 in Technical Solutions • Tagged with technical, Pelican

It's time to automate the deployment of this Pelican blog. This is a walkthrough of how I set it up.


Review of Udemy's Docker Swarm: Beginner + Advanced

Posted on Wed 31 October 2018 in Review • Tagged with review, technical, learning

My review of the Docker Swarm: Beginner + Advanced


Review of Udemy's Docker and Containers: The Essentials

Posted on Mon 29 October 2018 in Review • Tagged with review, technical, learning

My review of the Docker and Containers: The Essentials