I’m a Principal AI Engineer at Redis, where I build AI agents and agent memory systems. Before Redis, I was Head of Engineering at Prefect, where I led all engineering teams through multiple major open source rewrites and a major cloud platform transition. I have deep experience in Python, databases, and distributed systems — and I’ve spent the last couple of years going deep on what it takes to ship agents that remember and learn.
What I’m Working On
At Redis, I’m building production AI agents and designing memory systems for agent architectures. I also built agent-memory-server, an open-source memory server for AI agents that’s getting real usage in the wild.
Speaking & Podcasts
I was a guest on Software Engineering Daily talking about AI agent memory. I also moderated a panel on agent context at Redis’ last conference with folks from LangChain, Tavily, Augment, and Cognee.
I did a webinar with Redis and LangChain on memory management for AI agents.
Writing
I co-authored the O’Reilly report Managing Memory for AI Agents. I also wrote The Temple of Django Database Performance, a mashup of deep technical content and fantasy tabletop gaming.
Open Source
I maintain several open-source projects at Redis:
- agent-memory-server — A memory server for AI agents, supporting semantic and episodic memory, with working memory management and long-term consolidation. 154 stars.
- redis-om-python — Object mapping and more for Redis and Python. 1.3k stars.
I also contribute to redis-vl-python, the AI-native Python client for Redis with vector search, semantic caching, and LLM memory extensions.
On my own time, I built easy-mcp-proxy, an MCP proxy server that aggregates tools from multiple upstream servers with support for tool views — filtered, renamed, and composed subsets of tools.
Contact
You can find me on GitHub and LinkedIn. Or email me: a AT andrewbrookins.com.
Family
In my free time I kick it with my family (photo below). Our first daughter was born in 2012, and our second was born in 2019. They’re both absolutely bonkers, and I love them.
