Michael Ellis
Senior Software Engineer at Twitch
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Ellis is a Senior Software Engineer with 16 years of experience building backend services and developer tooling, currently focused on VOD and Clips infrastructure at Twitch. He has deep roots in commerce and software distribution systems, having led work on the Twitch desktop app, commerce SDK, and fulfillment services for game distribution and Twitch Prime. Prior roles at Amazon and Kindle teams reflect a strong background in device-facing services, special offers infrastructure, and cross-platform client integration. Based in Seattle and educated at the University of Waterloo, he pairs pragmatic engineering with systems-level thinking and a history of porting and integrating low-level code (C/Lua) into production environments. Notably, he has moved between product-facing features and internal builder platforms, giving him fluency in both user impact and developer experience.
16 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (33)
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protobuf10
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odin8
compiler8
grpc8
runner7
goplus7
linter6
home-assistant6
aws5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mellis/hass-control4
Jan 2022 - Sep 2024
Control4 integration for Home Assistant
Contributions:12 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 8 months
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mellis/sadtuba.github.com
Apr 2015 - Mar 2019
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
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