Andrew Coffey
Strategic Planning Manager
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolAndrew Coffey is a Strategic Planning Manager and competitive intelligence specialist with five years of professional experience and a broader career spanning federal capture, business development, and defense contracting. He excels at deep-dive research into complex RFPs and competitor landscapes, turning nuanced analysis into concise briefings and actionable BD pipelines for clients and large primes like Northrop Grumman. A former Army Reserve NCO with an M.S. in Applied Intelligence, he blends operational discipline and analytic tradecraft to support black‑hat reviews and win strategies. Unexpectedly technical, he also contributes to open-source C and Python projects—fixing stability issues in the widely used pygame library and improving its developer documentation—demonstrating an unusual mix of intelligence analysis and hands‑on coding.
5 years of coding experience
Master of Science (M.S.), Master of Science (M.S.) at Mercyhurst UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) at The Ohio State University
Github Skills (9)
c1710
c1110
pygame10
python10
image-processing10
sdl10
documentation10
game-dev9
game-development9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
pygame-community/pygame-ce
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
🐍🎮 pygame - Community Edition is a FOSS Python library for multimedia applications (like games). Built on top of the excellent SDL library.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:414 reviews, 52 commits, 146 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily addressed potential segmentation faults by fixing and optimizing various surface manipulation functions within the pygame-ce library. They made changes to core functionalities such as scaling, rotating, flipping, and chopping images, which included adding checks for error conditions. The user's modifications were focused on improving the stability and reliability of the library's image processing capabilities, specifically in C code.
game-devgame-developmentgamedevpygamepython
pygame/pygame
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
🐍🎮 pygame (the library) is a Free and Open Source python programming language library for making multimedia applications like games built on top of the excellent SDL library. C, Python, Native, OpenGL.
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:8 reviews, 27 commits, 15 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Andrew's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the documentation within the Pygame library. They edited the documentation for specific methods like `pygame.Vector2.angle_to` and documented new features such as `pygame.Vector2.epsilon` and `pygame.Vector3.epsilon`. Furthermore, the user added and clarified documentation for functions related to SDL and SDL_Image versions, ensuring clear and updated information for developers.
pythongamemultimediaon-topprogramming-language
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.