Summary
Andrey Nikolaev is a Customer Solutions Architect with over a decade of telecommunications and cloud experience, now shaping customer outcomes at Yandex Cloud after leading cloud support and engineering teams. He began as a system administrator and progressed through roles at DATATEL, Kaspersky Lab and BI.ZONE, gaining deep hands-on expertise with Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto, IBM, HP, Microsoft, VMware, AWS and SDN/OpenStack stacks. Known for rapidly mastering new equipment and software, he has architected fault-tolerant server infrastructures, high-availability SDN controller clusters, and large-scale backbone and satellite networking projects. Andrey combines systems-level troubleshooting with customer-facing presales and project leadership, often bridging technical detail and operational needs. Based in Moscow, he brings a pragmatic, self-taught approach to complex problems and a track record of delivering resilient production environments.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Master degree Information systems in Economy, Master degree Information systems in Economy at Moscow State Industrial University (MSIU)
Moscow, 693
English, German, Russian