Andrew Horn KarunaCode · Amherst, N.H.

About

Andrew Horn.

I live in Amherst. I've been building software for a decade — first freelance and teaching, then inside companies whose names you know: a Fortune 50 health insurer, a pharmaceutical market research platform, a hospital pharmacy portal. Systems where a bug costs real money and "it mostly works" isn't a passing grade.

Why local, why this

Enterprise software taught me something uncomfortable: the tools big companies use to protect their time never reach the businesses on Route 101A. Not because owners don't want them — because everything is priced and packaged for someone with an IT department. Meanwhile the plumber, the dentist, and the bakery lose the same five hours a week a Fortune 50 would never tolerate losing.

So before hanging out a shingle, the question that mattered was: how do businesses around Amherst and the Souhegan Valley actually show up when a customer tries to find them and book? The answer — dozens can't be booked online, several have dead web addresses, a few have no site at all — is why the guarantee on this site isn't bravado. The hours are there. I've seen where they go.

The record, briefly

  • Engineer at a Fortune 50 insurer; senior engineer at a hospital pharmacy portal and a pharma research platform — React, Python, data systems, the works
  • Coding bootcamp instructor; ran internal engineering training at the Fortune 50 — I explain things for a living, not just build them
  • Builder of free public data tools used by thousands of New Hampshire residents
  • KarunaCode LLC, registered in New Hampshire — insured, local, and findable at the same number next year

How I work

Prices on the page. Plain English in the reports. "You don't need me for this" said out loud when it's true. I'd rather be the person you trust with the next ten years of small technology decisions than win any single project — that math only works if the advice is straight every time.