Andras R
Principal Software Engineer at Wasabi Technologies
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolAndras R is a Principal Software Engineer with 11+ years building lean, high-throughput, low-latency services and data transport systems from cloud storage to multi-tenant job queues. He specializes in microservices, pub/sub messaging, REST APIs, and deep SQL/schema and Node.js performance tuning—often rethinking architectures to make code run an order of magnitude faster. A prolific open-source maintainer (github.com/andrasq) whose work has been incorporated into Node.js and widely reused in projects like ioredis and mysql2, he blends hands-on optimization with architecture-level improvements. Currently at Wasabi Technologies, he focuses on S3-compatible storage performance and CockroachDB tuning, having previously led performance efforts at Kinvey, 6 River Systems and NetProspex. Trained at UC Berkeley and Stony Brook, he pairs systems-level C/Linux and low-level concurrency experience with production Node.js/TypeScript expertise. Notably, several of his libraries (qtimers, qlist) have become foundational pieces inside popular ecosystem packages.
11 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Stony Brook University
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
andrasq/node-qheap
Nov 2015 - Apr 2021
very fast binary heap priority queue
Contributions:24 commits, 44 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
binary-heappriority-queue
andrasq/node-google-custom-metrics
Nov 2017 - Jul 2022
Contributions:41 pushes, 1 branch, 13 tags in 4 years 8 months
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