About Me

I’m Andrew, an avid tinkerer, jack of all trades, master of (a) few. I like to build things (and take them apart) and am always checking out the nearest dumpster in case anybody threw anything interesting away.

In my day job, I’m an the Director of Academic and Research Technology at Drexel University in Philadelphia. I work with amazing researchers and developers navigating the unglamorous parts of running research infrastructure and building software—dependencies, licensing, security, and reproducibility.

I grew up in South Jersey (of which Philadelphia is the real capital, regardless of what the maps say) and have been rooting for the Phillies and Eagles my entire life (Go Sportsball!). I studied Materials Science at Drexel because I found it wildly interesting (and still do!), but kept drifting back to the keyboard.

I started coding as a kid—batch scripts, QuickBASIC, and classic ASP. I’m self-taught (for whatever that’s worth in the age of StackOverflow and GenAI-assisted coding).

These days I spend a lot of time reading Reddit and getting angry with the direction the world is heading in. I try to make the world a better place where I can—to carry a little light in these increasingly dark times.

Most of the projects here were built with Claude.ai and Claude Code. I’ve found the collaboration surprisingly and genuinely enjoyable, and I try to be transparent about it—both the freedom it allows and the dystopian nightmare our growing collective overreliance portends.

I live with my wife Becky and our two almost teenage sons, our two huskies Odie and Zym, and of course, two cats, Frankie and Bloo.