Andy Morrell
Principal Software Engineer at TelXL Limited
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndy Morrell is a Principal Software Engineer with over 8 years of professional experience building cloud-native SaaS and microservice architectures, currently driving engineering at TelXL in Bristol. He combines hands-on .NET and JavaScript expertise (React, Vue, Node) with strong API design, CI/CD, TDD and dependency-injection practices, having led Azure-focused cloud projects and platform work at White Springs and enterprise systems earlier in his career. As a director of a freelance R&D consultancy and a community builder—organising a 50+ attendee Twitch developer meetup and speaking at TwitchCon—he blends technical delivery with mentoring and developer advocacy. He contributes to notable open-source projects such as TwitchLib, improving follower services and stream monitoring, which reflects his penchant for solving real-time, scale-oriented problems. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who favors robust, testable solutions and prefers contracting outside IR35 for focused, high-impact engagements.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
A-Levels Computing Maths /w Mechanics Geography, A-Levels Computing Maths /w Mechanics Geography at Clitheroe Royal Grammar sixth formStudied for a Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Studied for a Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Newcastle University
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Github Skills (9)
twitch10
eventsource10
eventing10
chat10
api10
event-emitter10
csharp10
event-sourcing10
dotnet-core10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
TwitchLib/TwitchLib
Aug 2017 - Mar 2022
C# Twitch Chat, Whisper, API and PubSub Library. Allows for chatting, whispering, stream event subscription and channel/account modification. Supports everything that supports .NETStandard 2.0
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:48 commits, 12 PRs, 1 push in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Andy primarily focused on improving the follower service within the TwitchLib library. This involved adding new events, enhancing the handling of follower data, and addressing build issues related to variable name changes. The contributions also include the addition of methods for setting communities and refactoring the LiveStreamMonitor service. Several changes involve core models and API interactions within the library.
everythingpubsub-libraryevent-streambotsubscription
LuckyNoS7evin/twitch-extension-boilerplate
Jan 2019 - Apr 2020
A repository for storage and addition of multiple Twitch Extension Boilerplate systems in multiple languages and frameworks
Contributions:11 commits, 8 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 2 months
twitch-extensionboilerplatemultiple-languagesextension-boilerplatetwitch
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