Andrew Swerdlow
Senior Director Of Software Engineering at Roblox
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Swerdlow is a senior technology leader with 16 years of experience building large-scale developer platforms and AI-driven engineering productivity tools, currently leading Engineering Efficiency and Core Services at Roblox from San Francisco. He has a track record of transforming developer workflows—spanning CI/CD, runtime systems, observability, and ML-powered automation—based on prior director roles at Instagram and Google where he managed organizations of 100+ engineers across safety, privacy, and developer infrastructure. A hands-on architect and open-source contributor, Andrew has improved build and packaging tooling for Ember Electron and contributed robust back-end and testing work to statsite, reflecting deep expertise in build automation, dependency management, and metrics pipelines. He’s also an author and speaker on tech leadership and has a history of founding/advising mission-driven projects, combining operational rigor with a passion for community and product integrity. Unexpectedly, his career blends operational platform mastery with privacy and fairness thought leadership—30+ privacy patents and ML fairness work underpin his systems thinking.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Computer Science Computer Software Engineering, Masters of Computer Science Computer Software Engineering at University of VictoriaMasters of Science in Engineering Management, Masters of Science in Engineering Management at Drexel UniversitySAPM Advanced Project Management, SAPM Advanced Project Management at Stanford University
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Github Skills (15)
dependency-management10
npm10
statsd10
python10
electron10
ember10
build-automation10
yarnpkg10
testing9
javascript9
regular-expression9
nodejs9
configuration-management8
cd8
cicd8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
adopted-ember-addons/ember-electron
Aug 2017 - Jul 2018
:zap: Build, test, compile and package desktop apps with Ember and Electron
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Andrew's commits primarily focus on improving the build and packaging process for the Ember Electron application. They made changes to incorporate yarn and npm lock files and improved the yarn tooling. Further contributions included the integration of electron-packager's prune modules for dependency management and the use of a tarball for installation. The user also modified the test setup to integrate testem-electron.js, showcasing expertise in build automation and dependency management within the context of an Ember Electron project.
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statsite/statsite
May 2014 - Jun 2014
C implementation of statsd
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:7 commits in 13 days
Contributions summary:Andrew made significant contributions to the `statsite/statsite` repository, primarily focused on enhancing the Librato sink. They implemented new features like the `ignore_metric_regex` configuration option. Additionally, the user addressed existing issues by refactoring code and resolving bugs related to metrics handling. They also developed integration tests to validate core functionality and ensure the reliability of the Librato sink.
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