Summary
Andy Snell is a software engineer and entrepreneur with a decade of hands-on experience building and modernizing PHP-driven web systems as President & Lead Developer at WickedByte and Senior Software Developer at PhoneBurner. He blends a math and economics background with a self-taught, pragmatic approach that began with Gentoo and grew through customer-support roots—giving him a rare combination of technical depth and user-centered empathy. Andy specializes in Laravel, MySQL/MariaDB, Redis, Vue.js and Docker, and excels at refactoring legacy code into maintainable, modern stacks. He favors simple, elegant solutions and brings consulting discipline to long-term development engagements, helping teams adopt better practices while keeping product-owner needs front and center. Based in Richardson, Texas, he pairs a chill-lofi work ethos with a meticulous craftsperson mindset.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics at Ohio University