Andrew Farrier
Principal Software Eng. Lead at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarAndrew Farrier is a Principal Software Engineering Lead with decades of experience shipping and optimizing games and systems across consoles, PC, and mobile, currently driving CPU and system performance work for Xbox in Microsoft's Advanced Technology Group. He has guided architecture across UI, AI, client/server gameplay, and performance optimization from prototype through live operations for major franchises and studios. Known for translating academic and conference-level research into practical studio-facing guidance, he also trains and collaborates directly with game teams to improve performance and tooling. Based in Redmond, he combines deep low-level systems expertise with hands-on engine and cross-platform development, and his background includes leading AI and UI efforts on high-profile titles like Shadowrun and MechWarrior 4.
3 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (30)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/Extensible-Digital-Content
Apr 2024 - Nov 2024
This template is a media viewer that enables a user to interact and view media files on both Xbox console and Desktop.
Contributions:4 reviews in 7 months
microsoft/DxCapsViewer
Feb 2023 - Aug 2024
DirectX Capabilities Viewer utility (dxcapsviewer.exe)
Contributions:2 reviews in 1 year 6 months
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