Francis O'brien
Principal Software Engineer at Roblox
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFrancis O'brien is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently shaping creator workflows at Roblox from the San Francisco Bay Area. He blends deep systems and hardware knowledge—grounded in a M.A.Sc. in Computer Engineering and FPGA-CPU heterogeneous acceleration research—with a decade of production software delivery across backend, tooling, and platform roles. At Roblox he progressed rapidly from engineer to principal, driving scalable solutions that serve large developer ecosystems. Earlier work spans graph-acceleration research (ICPP, IPDPS publications), embedded/hardware prototyping at Intel, and full-stack product engineering for startups and telecoms. He brings a rare mix of academic rigor and pragmatic engineering, often translating low-level performance insights into high-impact platform features.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Collegiate Studies Diploma - DEC Pure and Applied Sciences, Collegiate Studies Diploma - DEC Pure and Applied Sciences at Champlain Regional College St. LawrenceMaster of Applied Science - M.A.Sc Computer Engineering, Master of Applied Science - M.A.Sc Computer Engineering at University of TorontoBachelor of Engineering - B.Eng. Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - B.Eng. Computer Engineering at McGill University
English, French
Github Skills (80)
minecraft10
verilog10
testing10
synthesis10
test-framework10
creator10
cpp10
cursor10
javascript10
bdd10
logic10
typescript10
tdd10
vue10
electrical-engineering10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
itsfrank/MinecraftHDL
Oct 2016 - Nov 2020
A Verilog synthesis flow for Minecraft redstone circuits
Contributions:2 releases, 91 commits, 6 PRs in 4 years 2 months
minecraftredstonecircuitssynthesisvlsi
itsFrank/vue-typescript
Jul 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:3 releases, 71 commits, 1 PR in 1 month
decoratorsvue3vuetypescript-decoratorstypescript
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