Andrew Alloway was born and raised in Edmonton, Canada. He graduated from the University of Alberta with a computer science degree.

While working at Nuna Logistics Limited, he supported northern mining sites for their unique and challenging IT environment. In 2012, some of his projects and work were featured in the Winter 2012 edition of Aptitude Magazine in an article entitled "Building the road to streamlined license agreements".

He is a supporter of open source technology and products such as Ubuntu, ICTFax, Apache, Drupal, and Piler, among other projects.

He has designed and implemented projects, which include Exchange migrations, Lync deployments, System Center Configuration Manager, and various VMware products.

In 2013, he received the VMware Certified Professional 5 Data Center Virtualization certification.

He has previously worked with Packt Publishing on VMware Horizon Workspace Essentials and VMware Horizon View High Availability.