Andre Branchizio
Staff Production Engineer at Shopify
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndre Branchizio is a Staff Production Engineer with 11 years of experience building and productionalizing massive real-time storage systems that ingest, store, and query high-throughput data. Based in Boulder, Colorado, he currently drives reliability and scalability at Shopify after roles focused on observability at Splunk and integrations at Avero. His background spans backend, systems, and data infrastructure—MongoDB sharding, Kafka-backed microservices, and automated pipelines—paired with frontend experience in TypeScript and React. At Vanderbilt he combined research and ops, deploying sharded clusters and automated NGS analysis pipelines that moved antibody sequencing from manual to fully searchable, auditable workflows. He brings a practical systems mindset that blends hands-on sysadmin, DevOps, and software engineering to close the loop from lab to large-scale production. Collected chemistry training gives him a methodical, experimental approach to debugging and optimization.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Chemistry, 3.8, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Chemistry, 3.8 at Middle Tennessee State UniversityChemistry, Chemistry at University of Denver
Github Skills (43)
monitoring10
deduplication10
glusterfs10
kubernetes10
observability10
high-availability10
storage10
time-series10
system-monitoring10
prometheus-exporter10
opsgenie10
google-cloud-storage10
lucky-framework10
go10
prometheus10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
andrejbranch/prometheus
Feb 2021 - Mar 2025
The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.
Contributions:42 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 2 months
time-series-databaseprometheus-exporterseries-databasedatabaseprometheus-monitoring
andrejbranch/carbon
Jun 2015 - Jul 2018
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 73 pushes in 3 years 1 month
apiphpsymfony-bundleframeworksymfony
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