Summary
Andrei Krotkov is a Staff Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building large-scale, high-availability systems across startups and tech giants including Amazon, Google, and Uber. He has designed distributed query engines and view materialization at Amazon, led cross-organizational forecasting pipelines at Google Cloud Storage, and founded an indie studio that launched an MMO and developer platform serving hundreds of concurrent players. Comfortable from low-level C++/OpenGL visualization to cloud-native Node.js, AWS, and Spanner/BigQuery stacks, he excels at both deep technical design and improving developer experience. Known for shipping reliable platforms and tooling that let teams move fast—he built 30+ internal tools to streamline development and operations at his studio—Andrei blends systems thinking with hands-on delivery and a knack for enabling others.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College Park
Russian, English