Summary
Andrew Francis is a Principal Engineer with 13 years of professional experience building and operating large-scale, low-latency video systems at Twitch/AWS from San Francisco. He focuses on video bitstreams, low-latency internet protocols, networking, SRE, and distributed deployment—helping run a platform that serves millions of concurrent viewers and hundreds of thousands of broadcasters. Comfortable as a hands-on individual contributor, he pairs high-level architecture with deep performance work (he even writes SSE intrinsics for fun) and a pragmatic taste for products used by everyday people. An Australian by background, he brings a mix of systems-level curiosity and production-grade reliability shaped by long-tenured roles across startups and enterprise teams.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer