Summary
Andrey Kozhanov is a Senior Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 18 years of cross-platform embedded and mobile systems experience and 14 years in professional roles spanning automotive, consumer electronics, and cloud companies. He brings deep expertise in C++, Qt/QML, Linux (Wayland, Yocto), and messaging stacks, having driven platform features at LG WebOS, automotive navigation at HERE, and autonomy infrastructure at Lyft before joining Amazon. Comfortable across full product lifecycles, he has led small engineering teams and handled performance tuning, input methods, and speech integration while also shipping consumer apps like an FM radio for the Nokia N9. His background includes both low-level debugging and system integration tools (gdb, valgrind, ALSA/PulseAudio) and project management practices (SCRUM), which makes him adept at bridging engineering and delivery. A lifelong platform hacker, he often operates where embedded constraints meet rich UI, and he’s augmented his skills with a Udacity nanodegree in mechatronics and robotics.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer, Information Technology, Engineer, Information Technology at State University of Nizhni Novgorod named after N.I. Lobachevsky (UNN)
Nanodegree, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Flying Car Nanodegree, Nanodegree, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Flying Car Nanodegree at Udacity