Andrew McCree

Andrew McCree, born in Los Angeles, California, is a recent graduate from UC Santa Cruz and received his B.S. in Computer Science. Currently, Andrew is a software engineer on the Search Infrastructure team at Twitter. The Search-Infra team owns the problem of indexing up to 80K tweets per second while at the same time making those tweets queryable in real-time. 

This team owns and operates the indexes behind many of Twitter’s core products, including the ranked Home timeline, recommendations, consumer search, trends pages, data products (GNIP), curator tools, and spam tools. 

Andrew is heavily involved in the NSBE ogranization and actively works towards understanding failed persity efforts in tech, while working with industry leaders to ensure that creating a perse work environment is not only prioritized, but executed.