Andy Betts
Manager Of User Acceptance Testing (UAT) at OVHcloud
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndy Betts is a pragmatic technology leader with 14 years of experience who currently manages User Acceptance Testing at OVHcloud, ensuring customer-facing validation across cloud, virtualization, and bare-metal services. He combines hands-on UX and application design expertise with program-level delivery skills honed through roles at Western Governors University, where he led large migrations and built cross-functional tooling and processes. A long-time contributor and community builder in KDE, Andy translates open-source collaboration into measurable product outcomes and has guided UI/UX for major desktop and web projects. His background spans technical recruiting, support, and academic technology, giving him a rare blend of people-first leadership and deep operational insight. Based in Baltimore, he pairs an MBA with a humanities foundation in ancient history, reflecting a curiosity-driven approach to problem solving and stakeholder communication. Notably, he leverages community engagement as a growth lever—turning passive open-source users into active contributors to improve software quality and adoption.
14 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Business Administration and Management, General, Master of Business Administration (MBA), Business Administration and Management, General at Western Governors UniversityHistory, Ancient History of the Near East, History, Ancient History of the Near East at Brigham Young University
Spanish, English
Github Skills (21)
ux-design10
reproducible-research10
commons10
artwork10
pair-programming10
marketing10
opensuse10
creative-commons10
prototyping10
clojurescript9
clojure8
open-source8
hugo-theme8
hugo7
ubuntu6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
openSUSE/artwork
May 2012 - Oct 2015
Contains the collaborative work of the openSUSE marketing and artwork teams. Content is licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0 (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License).
Contributions:99 commits, 3 pushes in 3 years 5 months
commonslicensedcc-byattributionopensuse
KDE/documentation-develop-kde-org
Sep 2018 - Jan 2023
Hugo based website containing tutorials and other articles useful for KDE Development
Contributions:20 commits in 4 years 5 months
hugokdehugo-theme
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