Summary
Andrew Wanczowski is a technologist and solutions architect with 15+ years designing and delivering scalable content, search, and semantic knowledge systems across media, publishing, and enterprise domains. He blends hands-on engineering in Java, Spring, Elasticsearch, MarkLogic/Couchbase and modern front-end stacks with strategic leadership—shaping metadata models, APIs, and large-scale data pipelines for companies like Univision, Condé Nast, and Progress. As an IPTC delegate he has helped define industry metadata standards for sports and video, a less-visible role that highlights his ability to translate domain semantics into production-grade platforms. He has led boutique and enterprise teams through full lifecycle work—RFPs, architecture, implementation, and post-procurement migration—while building reusable tooling for DAM, content classification, and data conversion. Comfortable operating in cloud (AWS/Azure), CI/CD and containerized environments, he focuses on pragmatic architectures that balance search, graph, and document models to solve complex information problems. Based in the NYC metro area, he pairs technical depth with stakeholder-facing communication and mentorship across distributed teams.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Information Systems, Master of Science, Information Systems at Long Island University
Minor, Philosophy, Minor, Philosophy at Saint Joseph's College