Retirement Activities at Linux World Domination, Inc.
Westford, Massachusetts, United States
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Andy Stewart is a retired verification engineer with over 30 years of hands-on experience in ASIC, FPGA, and processor verification, having led cross-site teams and designed complex testbenches, gate-level simulation flows, and microcoded verification engines. He spent his later career at NVIDIA architecting multi-threaded verification programs and earlier built OVM/SystemVerilog FPGA environments at Raytheon, with deep expertise in Verilog, SystemVerilog/UVM, C, Perl, and Linux-based toolchains. Beyond silicon, Andy has strong embedded skills—microcontroller programming and accessibility-focused Arduino work that added voice synthesis to a ham transceiver to help visually impaired operators. A long-time Linux advocate and educator, he founded local user groups, taught Linux for years, and maintains "Andy's Ham Radio Linux" distribution with over 100,000 downloads. He also contributes front-end improvements to well-known open-source projects in the Emacs and Deepin ecosystems, reflecting a continued interest in UI and developer tooling. Now enjoying retirement in Westford, MA, he stays active repairing antique radios, teaching, mentoring, and building at his local makerspace.
17 years of coding experience
40 years of employment as a software developer
MSEE, Electrical (Computer) Engineering, MSEE, Electrical (Computer) Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Contributions:222 reviews, 115 commits, 532 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Andy primarily contributed to the Emacs LSP client, adding features and resolving issues related to language server protocol integration. They introduced support for Tree-sitter, adjusted the startup notifications for LSP servers, and implemented multi-server code action support. Furthermore, the user fixed several bugs, including those related to diagnostics rendering and completion menu behavior, improving the overall user experience and stability of the LSP bridge.
EAF, an extensible framework that revolutionizes the graphical capabilities of Emacs
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:82 reviews, 1634 commits, 418 PRs in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Andy primarily worked on the front-end aspects of the EAF framework, making changes to the UI components and visual elements. Their contributions include adjusting styling, adding icons, improving image and video preview capabilities, and implementing functionality for handling image and text rendering, indicating a focus on user interface design and visual presentation within the EAF applications. They also implemented features to enhance the user interface with improvements in the user experience, such as the ability to zoom and edit links.
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