Andrew Twyman
Engineering Coach at 0xPARC
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Twyman is an engineering coach and seasoned software architect with 11+ years of experience designing and shipping robust, secure, high-performance systems across embedded, desktop, mobile, server, and cloud platforms. He combines hands-on development in Python, Go, and C++ (with professional Rust and Obj-C experience) with technical leadership—planning projects, building and coordinating global teams, and improving reliability for large-scale services. At Dropbox he led cross-platform infrastructure and filesystem efforts that served massive scale and tightened SLAs, and more recently he’s been advising on zero-knowledge proofs and personal cryptographic data management with Zupass at 0xPARC. He’s passionate about APIs, cross-language codebases, maintainability of large codebases, and concurrent/distributed systems, and prefers roles that mix coding with architecture and mentorship. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he also brings deep low-level expertise—from assembly and firmware to cloud-native services—that helps bridge product requirements with durable technical designs. Based in San Francisco, he now focuses on mentoring engineers in career growth and leadership while contributing to cutting-edge privacy tooling.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
MEng & SB Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MEng & SB Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCum Laude, Cum Laude at Choate Rosemary Hall
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Github Skills (59)
json10
djinni10
anonymous10
typescript10
java10
cross-language10
circom10
type-declarations10
monorepo10
cpp10
semaphore10
javascript9
solidity9
dropbox9
ethereum9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dropbox/json11
Dec 2015 - Mar 2020
A tiny JSON library for C++11.
Contributions:23 commits, 39 PRs, 33 pushes in 4 years 4 months
cpptinyc-plus-plusheader-onlyjson-library
dropbox/djinni
Nov 2015 - Mar 2020
A tool for generating cross-language type declarations and interface bindings.
Contributions:48 commits, 84 PRs, 145 pushes in 4 years 5 months
cross-languagecpptype-declarationsdeclarationsjava
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