Andy Anderson, Ph.D., has been using open-source software since the early 1980s, and specifically FOSS4G since 2007. He has been programming since the mid-1970s, primarily for scientific applications but also including open-source software, beginning with Fortran and C and continuing most recently with JavaScript, Python, R, and SQL. He teaches occasional classes with and writes documentation for using FOSS4G in his position as Academic Technology Specialist for Mathematical and Spatial Data Analysis at Amherst College, in his role as Adjunct Assistant Professor in Environmental Conservation at the University of Massachusetts, and as a member of GeoForAll. He has been an OSGeo charter member since 2016, he served on the Boston Local Organizing Committee for FOSS4G 2017 and as chair of its Program Committee, and he participated on the Academic Committees for FOSS4G 2017 and FOSS4G 2018. His research interests lie in the areas of historical, urban, political, and environmental geography.