Andrew Gerrand

Art

From 2006 to 2008 I completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Photomedia) at the College of Fine Arts UNSW. During that time I produced and exhibited a volume of photographic work, before promptly being distracted by a career in software. Recently I returned to my art practice.

Film

Scribula (2025)

Scribula is an art film about Ogmograptis scribula (scribbly gum moth) that I directed, shot, edited, and soundtracked in early 2025. It is currently being screened at festivals and galleries.

Photography

Botany Industrial Park Studies (2008)

Large-format photography of the Botany Industrial Park in Botany, New South Wales. Presented as 1.25x1m light boxes at the COFA Annual in November 2008.

The works were awarded The Kayell Award for Photomedia at the COFA Annual in November 2008. Study #1 was a finalist in the CATAPULT Emerging Artist Award in October 2008.

Exhibitions

• This Is What We Were, Gaffa Gallery, Surry Hills, NSW (June 2009)
• COFA Annual 2008, College of Fine Arts Paddington, NSW (November 2008)
• CATAPULT (Finalist) Emerging Artist Award, Kudos Gallery Paddington, NSW (October 2008)
• Olive Cotton Portrait Prize (Finalist), Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah, NSW (August 2008)
• Chrome Addicts, COFASpace, Paddington, NSW (June 2007)
• "Money Makes the World Go 'Round", Kudos Gallery Paddington, NSW (March 2006)

Music

I love music, especially electronic music, and sometimes I even make some.

Releases

Some of my music is available on streaming services under the artist name 'enneff'.

Andromeda (2024)

Andromeda is a downtempo IDM tune, inspired by the awesome images produced by the Hubble Space Telescope.

YouTube | Apple Music | Spotify | Tidal

Sketches

Various moments from the studio.

More on Instagram.

Software

I have worked as a programmer since the late 90s. In 2010 I joined Google where I worked on various projects until mid-2024.

Go

I spent nearly seven years building The Go Programming Language at Google. While I did a lot of programming and design work, a large part of my role was building a community around the language and managing the open source project.

Some artifacts from that time:

• The Go Blog - I started this official blog and wrote many technical articles for it.
• Go for Gophers - the GopherCon 2014 closing keynote (slides).
• 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: 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.

deps.dev

From 2018 to mid-2024 I was the technical lead for a research and development team focused on open source software tooling. Among other things, we built deps.dev.

Uxn

In 2023 I became enamoured with the Uxn/Varvara ecosystem, and to it I contributed a couple of open source projects.

nux

nux is a cross-platform implementation of the Uxn virtual machine, which includes an interactive debugger. It is implemented in Go (of course).

fourtette

fourtette is a Tetris clone for Uxn. I took care to implement the Super Rotation System, so that it plays like many modern Tetrises.