Andrew Gunsch

Director of Engineering, Ad Hoc

Andrew Gunsch is an engineer and technology leader who's spent his career focused on platform development.

Andrew's projects have spanned application platforms for streaming media and web applications, infrastructure platforms for software applications to embedded device builds, and API platforms for both Google's internal APIs and GCP customers.

Most recently, Andrew has been bringing industry best practices for software development into government through his work at Ad Hoc, leading API, web, and infrastructure platform engineering efforts across federal agencies.

Andrew

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Impact
June 8
How to make the business case for an Internal Developer Platform
When you see your organization solving into the same problems again and again, you may try to pitch a platform as a solution. But what if your budget-holders only see platformization as an extra cost center? How do you convince them of the value you know an internal platform brings? We’ll share our experience with how to speak platforms to management, pitching value in terms they care about.
Kendra Skeene
Director of Product, Ad Hoc
Andrew Gunsch
Director of Engineering, Ad Hoc
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Culture
June 9
A carrot and stick approach to raising the bar on application quality
A platform can provide powerful leverage to scale standards for organizations, making usability, security, and design consistent across applications. But how can you enforce those standards without adding hurdles so big that your users give up in frustration? Join us as we share what works from our experience across public and private organizations!
Kendra Skeene
Director of Product, Ad Hoc
Andrew Gunsch
Director of Engineering, Ad Hoc
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