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Chuck McAndrew

Director of Infrastructure Engineering

I build resilient cloud-native systems, lead engineering teams, and contribute to open source. Currently at OpenTeams. Based in Granada, Spain.

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2026-03-26 - 8 min read

DRY Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means

Most developers learn DRY as 'don't duplicate code.' The original principle is about something deeper: every piece of knowledge should have a single source of truth.

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2026-03-24 - 6 min read

Rebuilding My Site with Astro, Tailwind, and DaisyUI

Why I ditched Hugo after years and rebuilt my personal site from scratch with Astro, Tailwind CSS v4, and DaisyUI v5.

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May 2025 - Present

Director of Infrastructure Engineering

OpenTeams

Sep 2023 - Jun 2025

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Quansight

Mar 2022 - Sep 2023

Staff Software Engineer (DevOps)

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