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Andrew McNeel

About Me

I'm an obsessive person with interests ranging from software development to meditation & yoga, from climbing to philosophy, from studying chess to playing the piano. I love exploring new interests and experiencing successes and failures alike. Currently, I'm co-running a freelance dev shop focused on web and app development. Our current projects are geared towards generating passive income to allow us time to explore other areas. I have a particular interest in AI safety and alignment, and have been involved with EA community and 80,000 hours to explore this realm and future endeavors.

Current Work

This software is very niche to the poker world, but it was a program I used as a player for many years until it went unmaintained. We garnered support from roughly 100 community members to rebuild the software from scratch, using a variety of languages, technologies, and techniques to bring this tool back to poker players. Combines front-end desktop app development, with win32 specific screen grabbing, fully managed by websocket connections and platform-specific python, nodejs, and c++ scripts

Synthesized county level and tract data, worked with design team to convey socio-economic differences and allow users to explore their effects across the state of Colorado. Built with Vue / Nuxt

Built web scrapers for static and dynamic web pages. Post processed said data to be database storage ready

Worked with another design group to create this fun page

Created this full-stack p2p sports betting app for a client. Combines elements of back-end API gluing, real-time adjustments, and managed cron processes

Past Work / Personal Projects

Design Focused Projects: - Primed Mind Website Versions: - Full Stack Developer at startup "Splice Machine". Worked mostly on web dev but dipped my toes into the ML world here - Primed Mind : CTO started as an intern, hired on full time, managed the iOS / Android development and data analysis Various side projects (mostly private) focused on personal interests. Including but not limited to: - A "solver" for a chess-variant called "Giveaway Chess" or "Suicide Chess" aimed at making and/or trees of proof-of-win nodes - Various browser automation projects, mostly data scraping and button clicking both as client projects and as personal - Poker-world projects aimed at assisting/interacting with tools such as PioSolver to manipulate i/o for better study material