Andrii Prokhorenkov
Principal Software Engineer at University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Prokhorenkov is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience, an MSc in Plasma and High-Temperature Physics, and a track record of delivering scalable data platforms for scientific research. Based in Chicago, he leads cross-functional teams at the University of Chicago building Gen3—a microservice-based, Python/Go/Node.js platform running on AWS that handles multi-TB clinical datasets and high-throughput GWAS workflows at Kubernetes scale. He blends systems and scientific programming with user-centered design, having streamlined ETL for imaging pipelines ingesting hundreds of gigabytes monthly and integrated open-source tools like OHIF, Orthanc, and OHDSI Atlas. Previously he accelerated analytics and ETL across industries—improving query performance by 2x to 30x, deploying LSTM model services on Azure, and running real-time metrics platforms at production scale. An active contributor to open-source tooling, he has enhanced string-manipulation behavior in the popular fish shell, illustrating attention to pragmatic low-level improvements as well as large-scale architectures.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Plasma and High-Temperature Physics, Master’s Degree Plasma and High-Temperature Physics at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
English, Ukrainian
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Github Skills (17)
windows10
text-manipulation10
command-line-interface10
rust10
shell10
putty10
testing9
r9
documentation8
logging6
import-from-excel6
readr6
dplyr6
xlconnect6
bash6
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
fish-shell/fish-shell
Jun 2020 - Sep 2020
The user-friendly command line shell.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 15 commits, 2 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Andrii primarily contributed to the "string pad" functionality within the fish-shell project. Their work included implementing the "width" argument, adding "--max" for string padding, and updating the documentation. The user's commits involved modifications to the `src/builtin_string.cpp` file and related test and documentation files. These changes enhanced the string manipulation capabilities of the command-line shell.
command-lineshellfishterminalrust
uc-cdis/dev-bot
Jul 2021 - Apr 2025
Slack bot to increase productivity
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 2 branches in 3 years 8 months
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