Andrew Garrett
Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering (Google Maps Data)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Garrett is a staff software engineer and SRE leader with 14 years' experience, currently steering reliability, measurement, tracing, and cost accounting for critical Google Maps data flows from ingestion to serving. He previously led SRE for Google Maps in Sydney, negotiating reliability strategy across organisations of 1,000+ engineers and building a high-performing team, and before that was technical lead for a Google for Education product with 100M+ users. Andrew blends deep cross-stack engineering with people-facing leadership—hiring, mentoring and translating reliability needs into product strategy. He has a history of shipping foundational open-source tooling (notably MediaWiki systems early in his career) and brings an interdisciplinary background in computer science and linguistics to complex distributed systems.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Program Interdisciplinary Humanities, Exchange Program Interdisciplinary Humanities at University College MaastrichtUNSW Sydney
English, Dutch, French
Github Skills (200)
mediawiki10
python10
fuse10
blob-storage10
energy10
collaborative-editing10
home-assistant10
ai-agent10
wikipedia10
mqtt10
ai10
gemini10
home-automation10
seaweedfs10
cli10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
werdnum/gemini-cli
Aug 2025 - Mar 2026
An open-source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal.
Contributions:2 PRs, 47 pushes, 7 branches in 6 months
werdnum/emhass
Mar 2024 - Nov 2025
emhass: Energy Management for Home Assistant, is a Python module designed to optimize your home energy interfacing with Home Assistant.
Contributions:54 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 7 months
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