Andrew Bucknall
VP Of Engineering at ⍜ Telescope AI
Queensland, Australia
Summary
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SeniorAndrew Bucknall is a VP of Engineering with over 20 years of web software experience and a 13-year track record of hands-on delivery across startups and product-focused teams. He blends product leadership and UX sensitivity with deep engineering skills in TypeScript, React, Node.js, Go, Postgres and AWS, while exploring Rust and language design in his personal projects. Andrew builds infrastructure-minded teams that prioritize fast, snappy user experiences and reliable customer outcomes, and he continues to deepen IaC and modern AWS DevOps practices. He’s developing a functional-imperative language with Hindley–Milner types and an offline-first collaboration suite backed by his own CRDT-native document database, signalling strong systems and research instincts beyond typical product roles. An active contributor to front-end open source (notably work on the popular sir-trevor-js editor), he also manages NixOS systems with Nix-driven builds, combining reproducible ops with pragmatic product shipping. Based in Queensland, Australia, he pairs entrepreneurial experience—from founding Trackboss RV to leading product at Shorthand and Carbonhalo—with senior engineering leadership at Telescope AI.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (7)
html10
css10
javascript10
front-end-development10
user-interface8
interface-design8
ui-design8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
madebymany/sir-trevor-js
Dec 2013 - Apr 2014
Rich content editing entirely re-imagined for the web
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on front-end development tasks, as evidenced by the commits related to CSS and HTML modifications within the project. They addressed font-related styles, setting a default font for the example, and made changes to the format bar's configuration. The user also resolved a typo and made changes to accommodate scrollable elements.
editingeditorrich-content
cobbweb/ocky
Feb 2013 - Jan 2014
Contributions:30 commits in 11 months
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