Andy Carra
Chief Technology Officer at WiGLE.net
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndy Carra is a seasoned engineer-founder and advisor in the San Francisco Bay Area with over a decade of experience building and leading products across financial software, wireless networks, mapping, and communications. As founder of WiGLE.net and former CTO/Co-founder at startups including Sindeo, True Link, and LearnVest, he blends hands-on engineering with entrepreneurial leadership to turn complex domains—payments, lending, and privacy—into usable products. He’s comfortable diving into embedded device hacking, AI, and mobile apps, and has contributed practical Android bug fixes and refactors to the popular wigle-wifi-wardriving repo. Known for playing devil’s advocate, Andy navigates technical strategy and product trade-offs while mentoring teams and advising fintech ventures like Treasure Financial and Envelope Finance. He holds an MS in Computer Science from the University of Michigan and brings a curious, contrarian streak that often foregrounds unconventional but effective solutions.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science Engineering, MS Computer Science Engineering at University of MichiganBA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at Kalamazoo College
Github Skills (6)
javas10
refactoring10
android-sdk10
mobile-development10
android10
java10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
wiglenet/wigle-wifi-wardriving
Jan 2017 - Jan 2023
Nethugging client for Android, from wigle.net
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:174 reviews, 199 commits, 747 PRs in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Andy primarily focused on bug fixes and refactoring within the Android application. Contributions include resolving location display issues, addressing token management problems to prevent inconsistent states, and correcting build issues. The user also performed significant refactoring and cleanup of the `MainActivity`, addressing memory leaks and improving code efficiency.
android
wiglenet/m8binary
May 2020 - May 2023
Contributions:3 releases, 2 tags in 3 years
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