Andrew Scherkus
Co-Founder & CTO at Roundtrip.ai
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Scherkus is a seasoned software leader and founder with 15 years of experience building large-scale media and mobility systems. As Co-Founder and CTO of Roundtrip.ai, he now focuses on data infrastructure for smarter cities after a decade at Google where he led HTML5 media efforts, helped standardize MSE/EME, and earned a Technical Emmy for transforming web media at scale. He also incubated AR/VR and 360-degree media work and served as a Seattle site lead, demonstrating a blend of product-minded engineering and cross-industry collaboration. Prior to Roundtrip, he led new mobility ventures at Ford X, running scooter-share R&D that directly informed Ford’s strategic moves in the space. Based in Toronto with a Software Engineering degree from Waterloo, he combines deep protocol and playback expertise with hands-on startup execution. Notably, his career shows a pattern of inventing practical prototypes to de-risk large organizations’ bets on emerging platforms.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Software Engineering, Bachelor of Software Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (98)
gcp10
protoc10
component-library10
mapview10
google-cloud10
google-maps10
mobility10
motion-detection10
shopify-api10
protocol-buffers10
background-location10
figma-plugin10
maps10
protobuf10
geofencing10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
protip-dev/examples
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
Protip.dev Examples
Contributions:24 PRs, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
reactdevtooltipsexpressnodejs
roundtrip/react-native-camera
Apr 2023 - Aug 2025
A Camera component for React Native. Also supports barcode scanning!
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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