Andrew Francis
Principal Engineer at Twitch / AWS
- Role
- Principal Engineer at Twitch
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
Experience
Principal Engineer
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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