Andrew Gerrand

Andrew helped build Go and its community, then led the team that built deps.dev. For developers investigating software dependencies, deps.dev makes package relationships easier to explore, supporting informed decisions about software composition. Technical writing, conference talks and interviews also help programmers understand Go’s design and use, making education and open source leadership important parts of this contribution to software quality.

Andrew Gerrand is a Forward Deployed Engineer at Amp Labs, based in Australia. Having programmed since the late 1990s, Andrew joined Google in 2010 and spent nearly seven years shaping Go through programming, language design, open source management, and community leadership. Starting the official Go Blog and authoring technical guides helped make the language and its architecture accessible across the developer ecosystem.

From 2018 to mid-2024, Andrew served as technical lead for a Google research and development team focused on open source software tooling. The team built deps.dev, a platform for exploring software packages and dependencies to help engineers understand software composition and security risks.

Open source projects also include nux, an implementation of the Uxn virtual machine in Go featuring an interactive debugger. Alongside engineering work, keynote talks at conferences such as GopherCon and discussions on technical podcasts have shared insights into language design, development practices, and community participation.