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About me

My name is Andrew Gerrand. I'm a software engineer based in Australia with more than 25 years of industry experience. I have worked at Google Australia since early 2010.

Go

I spent nearly seven years building The Go Programming Language at Google. While I did a lot of programming (at the time of writing I am the 6th most prolific committer to the Go core), a large part of my role was building a community around the language and managing the open source project.

• The Go Blog - written by me, for the most part.
• My talks and panel discussions:
  • 5 things I love (or why you should learn Go) - the dotGo 2014 opening keynote.
  • How Go Was Made - the GopherCon 2015 closing keynote (slides).
  • Go for Gophers - the GopherCon 2014 closing keynote (slides).
  • Go: code that grows with grace - a demonstration of Go's major language features, one of my favourites (slides).
  • Stupid Gopher Tricks - talk at Golang UK 2015 (slides).
  • The Path to Go 1 - Rob Pike and I discuss the development process leading up to Go version 1.0 (slides).
  • Google I/O 2013 Fireside Chat - great video quality and a lot of fun.
  • Google I/O 2012 Fireside Chat - sat next to ken as he laid down the law on tabs-vs-spaces.
  • talks.golang.org - more Go talks by myself and others.

Upspin

From mid-2016 to the end of 2017 I worked on Upspin, an experimental distributed file system for storing and sharing everything.