About Andrew
So, like... who are you?
Andrew Boardman's career began at seventeen when he wrote a text editor for BBS
systems. At Carnegie Mellon University, he helped use genetic algorithms in
groundbreaking research on programmatic stock trading.
After graduating from Colorado State University, with a CS major and Economics
minor, he worked on desktop publishing software at Quark in Denver, CO. He then
co-founded the consulting company WindBourne and eventually became its President.
As the dot-com bubble was bursting he joined Microsoft, where he mostly worked on real-time
communication products, and he was promoted to manager after one year. He
worked on cutting edge products, Office, Windows, in the developer
division, and in MSN. Andrew was the lead developer for Windows Live Messenger.
He left Microsoft to co-found his second startup, TalentSpring, a recruiting
company based on graph theory, where he learned many of the hard startup lessons.
Andrew then consulted with Seattle area startups before co-founding LearnVC.com.
LearnVC accelerated entrepreneurs learning startup financing, empowering them
to negotiate with the same information as VCs. They quickly pivoted to a SaaS
capitalization table product.
He became convinced that the Haskell programming language is the right way forward for tackling the hardest problems in computer science, and after using it in a startup he worked at SimSpace, a CyberSecurity company, where he learned how to use it in production.
Andrew is now the Executive Director of the Haskell Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to improving the Haskell language and ecosystem, and driving its adoption.
