Andrew Francis

Principal Engineer at Twitch / AWS

Role
Principal Engineer at Twitch
Location
San Francisco, CA, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers

Experience

  1. Principal Engineer

    Twitch

    Oct 2019 — Present

    I’m in the video group at Twitch / Amazon IVS. We build and operate a live low-latency (<5s for most) video service that’s served 6MM+ concurrent viewers, and 100k+ parallel broadcasts.My focus areas are:* Video bitstreams* Low latency Internet protocols* Networking (BGP, app-level routing strategy, telemetry)* Site reliability, and building resilient applications* Distributed systems deployment and orchestration* Monitoring and incident response* Benchmarking and capacity managementYou can see the video system in action at https://twitch.tv/ or using https://aws.amazon.com/ivs/

Education

  • Curtin University

    Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science

    2000 — 2002

Skills

  • Open Source
  • Freebsd
  • Sql
  • Linux
  • Html
  • Python
  • Varnish
  • Postgresql
  • Puppet
  • Json
  • Posix
  • Web Services
  • Websockets
  • Ajax
  • Technical Communication
  • Devops
  • Nginx
  • A/B Testing
  • Tcpdump
  • Javascript
  • Html 5
  • Optimizing Performance
  • Shell Scripting
  • Node.js
  • User Experience
  • Subversion
  • Mysql
  • Debian
  • X86 Assembly
  • Agile Project Management
  • Product Management
  • Tcp/Ip
  • Pound
  • C
  • Selenium Testing
  • Ubuntu
  • Sqlite
  • Php
  • Data Compression
  • Apache

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