Andy Gherna
Software Development Manager at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mahomet, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolAndy Gherna is a seasoned software development manager with over 18 years of enterprise experience building and operating web portals, APIs, and integration layers across higher education, finance, utilities, and manufacturing. Based at the University of Illinois, he leads a development team while serving as scrum master and hands-on developer, driving REST-based architectures, Kerberos-secured access, and high-traffic student services used daily by thousands. His technical breadth spans mainframes (COBOL, DB2, IMS) to modern stacks (Java, Python, Groovy, shell scripting, Linux) and includes practical strengths in XML design, security, and configuration management. He’s equally comfortable defining process—requirements, testing, deployment—as he is writing middleware to solve real operational problems, such as cutting deployment times and archiving large mainframe datasets. Notably, he combined legacy-mainframe know-how with modern web APIs to replatform a campus Course Information Suite that generates heavy per-user API traffic and meaningful user engagement.
19 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MA, Mathematics, MA, Mathematics at Eastern Illinois University
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Github Skills (25)
xslt9
windows9
namespaces9
xml9
portal8
gradle7
portlet7
tomcat6
transform6
xhtml6
spring6
cvs6
webservice6
java6
jakartaee6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
argherna/Dotfiles
Feb 2015 - Jul 2021
Contributions:140 commits, 109 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 6 months
argherna/pike
Mar 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:4 releases, 68 commits, 54 pushes in 5 months
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