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 extensive experience in backend development, have worked a good bit with DevSecOps and cloud based-tooling, and have done some work in machine learning through my graduate program.

I currently work as a Software Engineer at Arcadia, where I write Python modules to automate the collection and processing of utility data. I'm also pursuing a Master's degree in Computer Science at Temple University.

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

Here are 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 6 years. One of the first times I got an idea and realized I could solve it with software.


• Spotify Playlist Generator - 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.


• 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.


• 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.

Here is 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.


• Tumor Segmentation - Part of CIS 5528 coursework. Uses auto-encoder neural networks to segment brain tumors from MRI images as part of the BraTS Tumor Segmentation Challenge.

Here are 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++ - 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++


• C - Don't use it a ton, but its given me a good understanding of how higher level languages and operating systems actually work

My Interests

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


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


• Beat me in chess with minimal effort