Andrey Falko
Software Engineering Architect at Salesforce
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolAndrey Falko is a Software Engineering Architect with 10+ years building developer experience, CI/CD, and self-service infrastructure for large engineering organizations across Salesforce, Lyft, and Stripe. He is an expert in streaming systems—particularly Apache Kafka and Flink—having architected and scaled distributed streaming platforms, enabled multi-region capabilities, and reduced operational toil through automation and auto-remediation. At Lyft he led the Kafka installation and spoke widely on low-latency, reliability, and security topics; at Salesforce he open-sourced tooling and benchmarks to improve Kafka ops and secure Docker updates. He combines hands-on systems work (Java, Python, Terraform, Docker) with a strong operational mindset, making developer workflows safer, faster, and more autonomous for thousands of engineers. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he mentors contributors (Google Summer of Code) and has a track record of turning complex distributed-system challenges into repeatable, self-service solutions.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Pre-engineering and Politics, Law, and Culture, B.A., Pre-engineering and Politics, Law, and Culture at Bard College at Simon's RockAssociate of Arts (AA), General Studies, Associate of Arts (AA), General Studies at BHSECB.S., Industrial Engineering, B.S., Industrial Engineering at Columbia EngineeringCenter School
Russian, English
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Github Skills (95)
messaging10
github10
distributed-tracing10
queuing10
prometheus-exporter10
security10
automation10
dockerfile10
streaming10
monitoring10
docker-compose10
continuous-delivery10
rabbitmq10
remoting10
continuous-deployment10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
afalko/fta-kafka
Feb 2019 - Sep 2021
Contributions:16 commits, 17 pushes in 2 years 7 months
lyft/kafka-partition-availability-benchmark
Dec 2018 - Dec 2019
This is a tool that loads Kafka up with producers and consumers that are intended to stay alive and measure how long it takes produce and consume messages
Contributions:3 commits, 3 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year
kafka
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