About

The short version

I'm Andrew Gremlich — a longtime web engineer turned coach. By day I write TypeScript and ship product. The rest of the time I sit with engineers who are stuck on something technical, something interpersonal, or some tangled mix of the two.

The technical side

I've spent years on the front end of the web — Svelte, TypeScript, build tooling, the whole stack of things that make a browser do something useful. I contribute to open source, run my own projects (this site included), and have shipped enough production code to have strong opinions about most of it.

What I care about most is the boring stuff: code you can read six months later, abstractions that earn their keep, builds that finish, and reviews that leave the author feeling respected rather than corrected.

The coaching side

Engineering is a people job pretending to be a technical one. The hardest problems I've watched colleagues face haven't been algorithmic — they've been the manager who won't listen, the teammate who hoards context, the org that quietly punishes the people doing the real work.

I started training as a conflict coach because I wanted tools to do something about that — for myself and for the people around me. The work is straightforward in shape: a confidential space to name what's happening, plus practical frameworks for the hard conversation you've been putting off. It's not therapy. It's the conversation you wish you'd had before the one that's actually coming.

How I work

• Calls are confidential. What we talk about stays with me.
• You set the agenda. Some sessions are vent-and-strategize. Others are code review. Often both.
• I tell you what I think. If I'd push back on a decision, I'll say so — kindly, but plainly.
• Short engagements are fine. Sometimes a single call is all you need.

Off the clock

You can usually find me on a mountain somewhere — skiing in winter, hiking the rest of the year. I keep a life blog and a software engineering blog when I have something worth writing down.