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 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 even then, I fell into the rabbit hole of finite-element analysis and stayed squarely in front of a keyboard rather than in a lab.
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), and can parse most languages well enough to pick apart what the code is doing (except Perl and Brainf**k).
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, and to share what I’ve created in the hopes of making someone else’s life a little easier.
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 (apparently, we can never have just one of anything).
Everything on this site — the writing, the projects, the opinions — is mine and mine alone. This is a personal site. It does not represent, and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by my employer or any other institution. The views expressed here are my own.
The software I share here was built on my own time, with my own resources, for my own purposes. Where projects include sample data or configuration, any institutions depicted are fictional. Northwinds University is not a real place (no matter how idyllic their campus may seem). Any resemblance to actual universities, living or otherwise, is entirely coincidental.
All original works on this site are copyrighted by me. Where I choose to release software under an open source license, the terms of that license govern its use — not this page, not a handshake, and not whatever your legal department wishes the license said. The license is the license.