Andrey Nikiforov
Software Engineer at Meta
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrey Nikiforov is a seasoned software engineer with over 25 years in the field and 16 years of professional experience driving reliability, performance, and product-focused engineering across companies like Meta and Zillow Group. He blends deep technical craftsmanship—from untangling complex algorithms to building scalable backends—with a customer-first mindset that prioritizes root-cause analysis and pragmatic technology choices. As a principal engineer and architect he has led performance and reliability transformations, built high-throughput APIs, and shipped mobile and e-commerce platforms for small businesses. He contributes to open-source tooling such as the widely used icloud_photos_downloader where he improved robustness and deduplication in download flows, reflecting his attention to resilient file handling and test coverage. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Andrey is known for tuning teams to work cohesively while nurturing individual passion and embracing technologies beyond his prior experience to better tailor solutions to clients.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Computer Science, Masters, Computer Science at Ural State Technical University
Github Skills (5)
file-handling10
unit-testing10
python10
command-line-tool9
testing8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_downloader
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
A command-line tool to download photos from iCloud
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Software Engineer
Back-end Developer / Software EngineerContributions:80 reviews, 132 commits, 551 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Andrey's commits primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and robustness of the iCloud photos downloader tool. They implemented improvements related to file handling during downloads, specifically using temporary files to prevent issues with incomplete downloads and added functionality for checking file sizes to prevent downloading the same files multiple times. Furthermore, the user contributed to improving the unit tests within the project, adding tests to cover the new deduplication features.
command-line-toolicloud
AndreyNikiforov/icloud_photos_downloader
Aug 2020 - Sep 2025
A command-line tool to download photos from iCloud
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 1 PR in 5 years 2 months
command-line-toolicloud
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