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I'm Chuck McAndrew, Director of Infrastructure Engineering at OpenTeams. I live in Granada, Spain with my family.

My path to engineering was anything but conventional. Before I ever touched a server, I was an auto mechanic, a sword maker, and a United States Marine. I eventually found my way to the University of Washington where I earned degrees in Global Studies and Library & Information Science.

That library science background turned out to be surprisingly relevant. I started as an IT specialist at UW, then spent seven years as the infrastructure engineer at Lebanon Public Libraries in New Hampshire. Libraries taught me that technology exists to serve people, not the other way around. That principle still drives how I build systems.

From there, I moved into the private sector. At Ad Hoc, I worked on mission-critical systems for the Library of Congress, transforming their deployment practices from quarterly releases to multiple weekly deployments. At Quansight, I led the Nebari open-source data science platform, building infrastructure that ran across AWS, GCP, and Azure.

Now at OpenTeams, I lead infrastructure engineering and help set the technical direction for the organization's cloud and MLOps strategy.

I write here about infrastructure, open source, and occasionally the winding road that brought me to where I am. If any of that sounds interesting, check out the blog.

Get in touch

You can find me on GitHub and LinkedIn, or email me at chuck@chuckmcandrew.com.