I'm Andrew G. Dunn. I've spent most of my career using computing to build things that give other people leverage: tools, infrastructure, and systems that let someone do work they couldn't do before, or couldn't do at that scale. That pursuit keeps leading me to interesting places and opportunities for human connection across the globe.

The systems we build are becoming capable of carrying more of our intent. I'm interested in the craft of embedding taste and heuristics into those systems so that the judgment a person would have applied by hand gets applied at the scale computing allows. The work I find most rewarding is building alongside others, staying hands-on while helping the people around me find their own leverage in this shift.

I live in Grand Rapids, Michigan with my wife Ashley and our two sons, Alasdair and Atticus. Our extended family is mostly in West Michigan and we love our city and the proximity to the lakeshore. Most of our time is spent leaning into the young ones' curiosity for experiences. Spending time with them influences how I think about building and legacy.

Right now I work at GitLab, a globally distributed open source organization, where I engage with regulated industries, build tooling, and contribute back to our core products and open source. Before that I was a research engineer for the United States Department of Defense, doing scientific computing at small and large scales in support of modeling and simulation. My background is software, statistics, and infrastructure, but what I keep returning to is the search for leverage: the narrow places where the right tool, the right abstraction, or the right question changes what a team is capable of.

This site is a Zettelkasten where I write things down and let the connections between ideas reveal themselves over time. Below is a sample of what I've been working on lately. If something here exceeds the activation potential for a conversation, I hope you'll reach out.