Shane Francis is a device maintainer and member of the CyanogenMod community who has worked on devices such as the Asus Transformer, Advent Vega and HTC Sensation – starting with the Advent Vega in 2010 while he was at University studying his computer science BSc.

Throughout his time working within CyanogenMod he has worked on a multitude of other side projects that relate to the android operating system, such as an Open source IR application and helping to bring some of the advanced features of Sony’s camera hardware into CyanogenMod.

Shane has also worked on investigating the low level security implemented on tegra 3 tablets (such as the original Nexus 7) within the AndroidRoot.mobi project. Finally, Shane is a robotics and general technology enthusiast!