Andy Gherna

Manager of Software Development, Technology Services

Agile Fusion: Integrating Software Development and Business Process Improvement

Learn how continuous process improvement can be applied in an Agile software development work environment. Ginger Hundgen, Lead Business Process Improvement Analyst for Tech Services, will share core lessons from her training as a Six Sigma certified Process Improvement Specialist and Andy Gherna, Manager of Software Development for Tech Services will share these concepts in […]

Agile State of Mind

Tags: Andy Gherna, Ester Cha

Software development at what used to be CITES and is now Technology Services was difficult because the expectation was that waterfall style development was the only way to get work done correctly. But projects were running long and team members grew more frustrated with the process due to a lack of communication and pivoting the […]

Shib in a Box: Containerizing the Shibboleth Service Provider

Tags: Andy Gherna, David Riddle, Jeff Dimpsey, Keith Wessel

Technology Services is currently developing an authentication microservice that enables service administrators to protect microservices with Shibboleth without having to employ unnecessary components, such as Apache and shibd, allowing for lightweight, single-process containers. Protecting containerized applications with Shibboleth can be challenging, so this talk will explore the possible solutions, their limitations, and why we are […]

Web APIs as a Platform for Enabling Application and Service Development

Tags: Andy Gherna, Jeff Dimpsey

CITES has been hard at work developing new Web-based APIs to enable developers across campus. We will discuss the principles behind web APIs, show some of what’s available, and how to apply it to your own applications.