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

Review of Udemy's renamed The 2018 Git Complete: 45 minute crash course using Angular.

Posted on Mon 01 October 2018 in Review • Tagged with review, technical, learning

My review of the The 2018 Git Complete: 45 minute crash course using Angular.


Backing up Ubuntu laptop to Ubuntu Server with passwordless rsync

Posted on Wed 26 September 2018 in Technical Solutions • Tagged with technical

The server has been running and the laptop needs to be backed up. This walks through how I did it.


Review of Udemy's Learn DaVinci Resolve 15 from scratch

Posted on Fri 21 September 2018 in Review • Tagged with review, technical, learning

My review of the Learn DaVinci Resolve 15 from scratch course on Udemy.


Deploying a Flask Slack app on Google Cloud Platform

Posted on Fri 13 July 2018 in Technical Solutions • Tagged with technical

Setup a Slack app using Flask and deploy it to Google's Cloud


Set up Dynamic CloudFlare IP with Let's Encrypt

Posted on Wed 25 April 2018 in Technical Solutions • Tagged with technical

Time to make the server accessible from the internet and secure it with an SSL certificate


Setting up GitLab on the new server

Posted on Fri 13 April 2018 in Technical Solutions • Tagged with technical

Let's set up some private repositories on GitLab


Travis CI doesn't keep your environment variable secure

Posted on Mon 02 April 2018 in Technical Solutions • Tagged with technical

Travis CI does not keep your environment variables secure if you transfer a repository.


Installing NextCloud

Posted on Tue 27 March 2018 in Technical Solutions • Tagged with technical

The ZFS pool is set up. It's time to use all that storage space and install NextCloud.


Review of Udemy's Django Course from Basics to Advance

Posted on Tue 20 February 2018 in Review • Tagged with review, technical, learning

My review of the Django Course from Basics to Advance course on Udemy.


Setting up a ZFS pool on Ubuntu 16.04

Posted on Thu 15 February 2018 in Technical Solutions • Tagged with technical

With the backup server assembled, it's time to start configuring it. This post covers setting up the ZFS pool for all the data