Andrei Tserakhau is an experienced engineering manager and hands-on leader with 11 years in software development, specializing in large-scale distributed data delivery systems. He led the unification of multiple Yandex data pipelines into Yandex Data Transfer and scaled services to handle multi-GB/s traffic with sub-second latencies, later founding and productizing cloud-native ingestion tooling at DoubleCloud. At Databricks he now focuses on Delta DML and disaster recovery, bringing deep operational experience across Kafka, ClickHouse, Airflow and cloud runtimes. Andrei blends people leadership—hiring and growing distributed teams and mentoring engineers—with day-to-day systems design and code reviews. An active open-source contributor, he has improved EF Core migrations and enhanced Angular’s date pipe, showing fluency across backend and frontend ecosystems. Based in Berlin, he combines startup grit with enterprise-scale engineering discipline and a pragmatic, product-minded approach.
EF Core is a modern object-database mapper for .NET. It supports LINQ queries, change tracking, updates, and schema migrations.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:19 commits, 20 PRs, 72 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Andrei primarily contributed to the Entity Framework Core project, focusing on enhancing its functionality related to database migrations. They implemented asynchronous methods for database migration, added a database delete command, and addressed issues related to script generation and the handling of migrations. Furthermore, they worked on supporting date and time functions, including `DateAdd`, within the query translation mechanisms.
Contributions:8 commits, 15 PRs, 93 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Andrei primarily contributed to the date pipe functionality within the Angular framework. Their work involved enhancing the date formatting capabilities by adding support for numeric strings, handling two-digit interpretation of minutes and seconds, and incorporating narrow forms for month and weekday representations. Furthermore, the user addressed timezone formatting issues and fixed bugs related to specific date patterns, ensuring the date pipe accurately reflects user-defined date and time formats. Their contributions demonstrate expertise in Angular's date formatting features.
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Andrei Tserakhau - Engineering Manager at Databricks