Andrew Wegner
Vice President Product, Strategic Software
Peoria Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Wegner is a strategic software executive with nearly two decades of experience building and scaling engineering teams and products across startups and enterprise environments. Currently VP of Product, Strategic Software at Zayo Group, he has repeatedly driven SOC2 and GDPR readiness, led global teams through funding stages, and cut operational costs and processing times through pragmatic architecture and process improvements. His hands-on background ranges from recovering millions in warranty costs at Caterpillar to designing asynchronous provisioning pipelines that halved provisioning time at PacketFabric. A pragmatic full-stack contributor, he has also improved open-source tooling for static site themes, demonstrating attention to UX and clean templating. Known for recruiting and mentoring high-performing teams, he blends technical depth in system architecture and CI/CD with a focus on measurable business outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Master of Engineering - MEng Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Iowa State UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Northern Illinois University
Github Skills (8)
css10
markdown10
pelican10
markdown-it10
jinjava10
static-site-generator10
html9
javascript5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Pelican-Elegant/elegant
Nov 2018 - Dec 2018
Best theme for Pelican Static Blog Generator
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 5 PRs, 31 comments in 19 days
Contributions summary:Andrew made significant contributions to the Pelican-Elegant theme, primarily focusing on extending its functionality and improving the user experience. Their work included implementing support for third-party analytics tools, adding author blurbs to articles, and fixing navigation menu links. Furthermore, the user refactored the theme to utilize Jinja's `default()` function for cleaner code, and introduced support for Markdown admonitions. Their changes spanned across templates, CSS, and configuration files, reflecting a full-stack understanding of the theme's architecture.
elegant-themeblog-generatorstatic-sitestatic-blogstylish-theme
AWegnerGitHub/awegnergithub.github.io-source
Apr 2015 - Mar 2025
Source for Ponderings of an Andy
Contributions:1 review, 4 PRs, 133 pushes in 10 years
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