Andy Gnias

Fellow Human and Software Engineer

My name is Andy Gnias and I like to code. I graduated from Drexel in 2016 with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. Immediately thereafter, I took a job in software, and after 6 years in the industry I've almost fully quelled my impostor syndrome.

I have pretty extensive experience in all things development, have worked a good bit with DevSecOps and cloud based-tooling, and have occasionally done my best impression of a machine learning engineer. When coding, I take as much pride in a well written docstring as a well written algorithm.

I currently work as a Software Engineer at Arcadia, where I work on data scraping projects and get to fulfill my dream of fighting the climate crisis with code. I'm also taking graduate courses in Computer Science at Temple University.

In my free time, I like to read, play piano, do CrossFit, and pet my dog.

Here's some of my projects

• Secret Santa Selections Manager - I've used this to manage the Secret Santa I do with my friend group for the past 5 years and it hasn't failed me yet. One of the first times I got an idea and realized I could solve it with software.


• Spotify Playlist Generator - This takes a list of songs and puts it in a Spotify playlist. I got the idea when my mom gave me a word doc of songs for my sister's wedding shower and asked me to make a playlist out of it. I didn't finish it in time for the shower, but it's been a fun Python project that I've personally used a few times since.


• Grocery List Creator - Takes a list of recipes and generates a list of ingredients for grocery shopping. Uses a very limited open source API, and definitely needs some improvements to be useful, but it's a fun concept that I'd love to expand on some more.


• Ticket to Ride Graph Analysis - Does a basic analysis on the board game Ticket to Ride, modelling the board as an undirected graph in Rust.

Here's some of the work I've done as a graduate student at Temple University

• Classification of Tweets Related to the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Part of CIS 5523 coursework. Uses sentiment analysis, clustering, and a neural network to classify Tweets related to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Here's some articles I've written

• Analyze Data with Russian Trolls


• Interpreting a Basic vimrc File


• Setting up a k3s Server and Agent Node

These are the programming languages I like to use

• Python - My go-to


• C/C++ - I used pointers before they were smart


• Java - Because static typing is cool sometimes


• JavaScript - Really I mean Node.js


• Rust - Still overusing .clone() but enjoying it as an improved C++

My Interests

• Check out what I'm reading on my Goodreads page


• Check out what I'm watching on my IMDB page.