About US

About the Founder of HOA-Colors

Andrew Himelstieb is the Founder and Full Stack Developer of HOA-Colors. He is originally from Montrose and Ouray, Colorado. In middle school, Andrew's Stepfather , Joe Mattivi (Who was an elected Ouray County Comissioner and served as a volunteer firefighter) passed away in a minning accident. His Mother, Laura, worked as a local Realtor.

After Highschool, Andrew worked for a couple years with his biological father Peter, who has been a painting contractor in the Denver Metro area for over 40 years. These various life experiences led to the original Idea for HOA-Colors. It began in the mid 2010's before the tools for creating deep learning models were available. Now, not only are the tools avaiable, but HOA-Colors is working on creating and annotating a custom dataset for training, This dataset is needed to detect the various parts of the exterior of homes, much more precise and quicker than other models. As of Dec 2025, no models can accurately detect the various but specific details of a house's exterior, to the precision needed for a platform like HOA-Colors.


After serving an enlistment in the US Marine Corps (MOS 6492), Andrew moved back home to Colorado to finish a degree in Physics. Before finishing his degree, Andrew left to found HOA-Colors LLC and work on creating the business platform full-time. While in the Marines, Andrew tried out for and made the All US Marine Corps Greco-Roman Wrestling Team at 55kgs.

As the last born of a set of Identical Triplets, Andrew, and his brothers were the first set to be born at Rose Medical Center, Denver Colorado, in 1986.

A very passionate and intense interest in GNU/Linux and programing has led Andrew to be a long time volunteer with numerous Free Software and Open Source projects including The Plone Foundation and The Fedora Project (a GNU/Linux distribution). He is a Co-Maintainer of the LibrePlanet Denver - CO Group and a long time associate member of the Free Software Foundation & EFF.

Andrew Himelstieb was selected for the prestigious Google Summer of Code program in 2025 working with The Plone Foundation on updating a valuable Plone CMS addon called Authomatic.

Andrew is also a licensed Amateur Radio Operator: call sign KFØUFO with Amateur Extra (advanced level) privileges. You can catch him mostly on DMR, M17, the RMRL repeaters, and Echolink & AllstarLink. He is also a founding member of DenverMesh.org, as a System Administrator. Andrew is also a Linux System Administrator for ARUFON The Amateur Radio UFO Network.