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Equipment & resale
Sourcing, evaluating, testing, and selling enterprise IT and audiovisual equipment. Handling the details from inventory and pricing to shipping and fulfillment.
EQUIPMENT · INFRASTRUCTURE · AI
Hi, I’m
Andrew.
I help people tame computers and AI, putting them in service of their goals.
Business owner. Hands-on builder. Always figuring out how things can work better.
You can call me Andrew.Torrance, California
Business experience. Technical curiosity.Connecting the physical and the digital
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A little about me
I like understanding how things work.
Then making them work better.
My work sits where technology meets everyday business. I buy, evaluate, and resell equipment, build and maintain my own infrastructure, and develop tools for the operational problems I run into.
My background is in applied informatics and economics. I’ve also founded and managed a Montessori school. Those experiences keep bringing me back to the same question: how can a system help the people using it?
Today, I’m exploring how AI can become a useful part of business processes—from organizing information to reducing repetitive work.
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What I do
From the equipment to the systems around it.
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IT infrastructure
Building and maintaining my self-hosted environment. Working through how servers, storage, networking, databases, and applications fit together.
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AI & business systems
Exploring and prototyping workflows that put AI to practical use. Connecting business information, software, and automation to make daily operations easier.
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Things I’m working on
Running a business. Building what comes next.
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Picky Bear
Active businessAn equipment resale business built around enterprise IT, networking, servers, projectors, and audiovisual equipment. I handle sourcing through fulfillment.
The work behind it
Evaluating surplus equipment, testing what I can, researching specifications, pricing inventory, creating listings, and getting orders packed and shipped. Running the business gives me real problems to build better tools around.
Operating since July 202402
Pickyflow
In developmentAn inventory and operations app I’m developing around the way I work: purchases, individual items, listings, sales, shipping, and profit in one connected system.
What I’m building
A document-oriented interface that keeps an item’s story together—from acquisition and condition photos to sale and fulfillment. The aim is less scattered information and a clearer view of the business.
SvelteKit · TypeScript · Inventory & operations03
My infrastructure
OngoingA personal server environment for hosting applications, working with data, and experimenting with tools. A hands-on place to learn by making things run.
Inside the setup
Ubuntu, Docker, PostgreSQL, self-hosted applications, network access, and storage experiments. I’m developing the setup as my projects and day-to-day needs evolve.
Self-hosting · Databases · Networking04
AI in practice
ExploringExperiments with AI-assisted business processes and tools for notes, knowledge, and planning. Starting with tasks I understand and building from there.
Current interests
Organizing business information, assisting with product research and listing preparation, exploring outreach workflows, and designing better ways to connect notes and ideas.
Prototypes & experiments04 /
Off the clock(more or less)
Curiosity doesn’t really
keep office hours.
Taking things apart
Electronics, hardware repairs, and figuring out whether something can be made useful again.
Designing useful tools
Interfaces, notes, knowledge systems, and better ways to organize the ideas in my head.
Learning & teaching
How people learn—and how to make technology, math, and AI more understandable.
Coffee & conversation
A lively café, a latte, a good conversation, and a change of scenery to think through an idea.
A PROJECT, A QUESTION, OR A GOOD IDEA?
Let’s make
something work.
Equipment, systems, AI, or simply an interesting conversation.