Andrei Eternal
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrei Eternal is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 17 years of experience building cloud-native, collaborative, and blockchain-enabled products from San Francisco. He’s held hands-on roles from Evernote’s cross-platform collaboration team to founding Nugbase, where his team shipped early NFT tooling and projects that generated millions in on-chain volume. Currently he leads multiple engineering teams and the open-source Cline agent stack (IDE integrations for autonomous coding) while contributing full‑stack UI and browser-control features to the cline/cline repo. Andrei blends product-facing leadership—running dev teams, partner negotiations, and business strategy—with deep technical work across backend systems, distributed Linux tooling, and real‑time media. He’s comfortable moving between shipping production SDKs, prototyping novel UX, and scaling developer products, and has a track record of turning experimental ideas (from real‑time collaboration to blockchain gaming mechanics) into revenue-generating software. A Waterloo math/CS alum, he now contributes to AI coding infrastructure at OpenAI and Cline, combining startup founder instincts with enterprise-grade engineering.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics 3-Year General Computer Science, Mathematics 3-Year General Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, Russian
Github Skills (13)
android-webview10
webview10
react10
typescript-types9
typescript9
javascript9
typescripts9
css8
html8
openai-api7
puppeteer7
api6
apidoc6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cline/cline
Feb 2025 - Mar 2025
Autonomous coding agent right in your IDE, capable of creating/editing files, executing commands, using the browser, and more with your permission every step of the way.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 15 PRs, 52 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Andrei primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality within the `cline/cline` repository. Their contributions include implementing rich media responses, incorporating image and link previews, and improving the handling of URLs and embeds. Furthermore, they added support for new AI models and refactored the codebase for better performance and error handling, particularly in the webview UI components. Additionally, the user was involved in adding browser control features.
Garoth/StAbbey
Feb 2016 - Sep 2022
Contributions:4 pushes in 6 years 7 months
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