Out at Camp
Andrew Duyvestyn (he/him) — Co-founder, President of the Board
OAC started with a shared conviction: the outdoors are better with people you love in them. Andrew and Tom built the organisation together, each arriving at the same idea from the same direction, which is what tends to happen when two people have been paying attention to the same things for long enough. What began as a way to lower the barrier for friends to get outside has become something neither of them could have built alone.
Andrew is, by his own description and Mac's thorough field testing, punchy, compact, and energetic. Mac is the Jack Russell terrier he shares with Tom, and Mac has opinions about this characterisation that he expresses mainly through sprinting. The comparison holds.
Based in Ottawa, Andrew spends his outdoor hours camping, hiking, and building fires with the kind of quiet efficiency that comes from actually knowing what you are doing. The fire is going before most people have finished debating where to put the tent. By day he is a web developer, which means he builds things carefully and fixes them when they break, a skill set that transfers well to both codebases and camp kitchens.