Andrew Gearhart
Department Address
140 Curtin Road
University Park, PA 16802-1800
About Me
As a DevOps Engineer with the University Libraries at Penn State, I focus on building resilient infrastructure, automating deployment pipelines, and supporting sustainable, open-source solutions for research and scholarship. My work emphasizes collaboration, long-term maintainability, and reducing barriers between development and operations. I’m particularly interested in how libraries can lead by example in adopting ethical, privacy-conscious technologies and sharing their innovations with the broader community.
Education
- Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Management Information Systems
Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Eberly College of Business and Information Technology (2000–2002) - Certificate of Achievement: Emerging Leaders Program
Penn State University – Center for Workplace Learning & Performance (2015)
Research Interests
- Open-source infrastructure for libraries and higher ed
- Sustainable DevOps practices and platform engineering
- Ethical AI and responsible automation in public institutions
- GitOps and workflow transparency in scholarly communications
- Human-centered systems design and digital accessibility
Teaching Interests
- Infrastructure as Code and modern DevOps practices
- Git, GitHub Actions, and CI/CD in research workflows
- Open-source tools for reproducible scholarship
- Technical documentation and knowledge sharing
- Mentoring through peer-driven learning communities
Lecture/Speech
PANA (soon with Open ONI 1.0!), Code{4}Lib Conference 2020. 2020.
Docker for
Journal Article
The Pennsylvania Newspaper Archive, IFLA Journal. 2018.
Conference Poster
Introducing the Open Online Newspaper Initiative, DH2017. 2017.
Conference Paper
Fitting a Square Peg into a Round Hole, IFLA International News Media Conference. 2017.
Book Chapter
Infrastructure for Open Access. 2016.