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Andy is a Web Services Architect and Senior Software Engineer at IBM's WebSphere and Open Liberty development lab based in Rochester, Minnesota.  He is a frequent contributor to open source software such as Open Liberty, Apache CXF, RESTEasy, MicroProfile, Jakarta RESTful Web Services, and more. He is a co-founder of the MicroProfile Rest Client and GraphQL projects. He has written blog posts for openliberty.io and DZone, and he has spoken at various conferences around the world. The rest of the time, Andy keeps busy with a wife, three kids and a bass guitar.