Andrey Meshkov is a hands-on Chief Technology Officer with 11 years of experience leading product-focused engineering at AdGuard and contributing across its flagship open-source projects. His work spans front-end polish for browser extensions and dashboards, mobile (iOS) feature and build automation, and backend DNS tooling—demonstrating full-stack fluency from UI tweaks to DoT/DoQ proxy internals. Based in Russia, he combines leadership with active code contributions that improve robustness and observability (logging, tests) and practical developer tools like a DNS lookup CLI. Notably, he moves seamlessly between UX refinements and low-level networking fixes, reflecting a rare blend of product sensibility and protocol-level expertise.
Simple command line utility to make DNS lookups to the specified server
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:12 releases, 13 reviews, 54 commits in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Andrey primarily contributed to the development of a command-line utility for DNS lookups. Their work involved implementing features for different DNS server types including plain, TLS, and DNSCrypt. They integrated dependencies like `AdguardTeam/dnsproxy` and `miekg/dns` to handle DNS requests and responses. The user also added support for environment variables and the ability to output results in JSON format.
Contributions:61 reviews, 3184 commits, 55 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Andrey primarily worked on modifying the `Filters/parser.py` file within the repository. Their contributions focused on refining the rule parsing logic, specifically concerning the domain rule identification and the exclusion of specific rule options. These changes appear to be aimed at improving the filter's accuracy and efficiency, potentially addressing issues related to rule matching and filtering unwanted content. The user also added functionality to exclude specific rules based on their options.
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Andrey Meshkov - Chief Technology Officer at AdguardTeam