Dru Knox
Head Of AI at Tessl
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDru Knox is a Head of AI and product leader with 10 years of experience building developer platforms and AI products, currently based in London. He has helped shape two of the largest developer ecosystems (Android and the web) through product roles at Google and later led AI product efforts at Grammarly, Airtable, Cantina and Tessl. As a founder of Overworld AI, he combines entrepreneurial grit with hands-on product strategy and technical fluency from a Computer Science background at the University of Virginia. Dru is drawn to design, game theory, and armchair philosophy, which he leverages to frame product decisions and long-term platform incentives. He’s comfortable operating at the intersection of developer ecosystems and applied AI, translating complex technical trade-offs into pragmatic roadmaps. An uncommon strength is his history of moving between large platform teams and startups, giving him rare perspective on scaling both products and organizations.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Virginia
Spanish
Github Skills (22)
git-repo10
css10
mobile-web10
chrome10
google-developers10
javascript9
html9
mechanism8
disable8
template-literals7
thread7
dom6
blocking6
dashboard6
effort6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
drufball/yosai
Feb 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:1 PR, 130 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
esprehn/tasklets
Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 14 days
workersexperimenting
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