Andrey Petrov
No Longer Updating LinkedIn
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrey Petrov is a seasoned software engineer and founder with 17 years of experience building startups, developer tools, and production back ends. He founded a Y Combinator company and has shipped paid products while contributing to notable open-source projects across Python, Go, Rust, and JavaScript—work that spans urllib3, go-ethereum, Keybase, and the popular ssh-chat. Comfortable across full-stack and systems-level problems, he’s implemented SSL/TLS improvements, p2p and RPC enhancements, EVM bytecode analysis, and cross-platform native integrations for browser and mobile. Based in Old Toronto, he combines pragmatic engineering with an appetite for elegant constraints and creatives touches—he literally draws stick figures but escalates as needed to solve complex problems.
17 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
H. BSc, Computer Science, H. BSc, Computer Science at University of Toronto
Github Skills (54)
javascript10
ios10
ssl10
solidity10
tls1210
python10
google-analytics10
browser-extension10
testing10
net10
evm10
configuration-management10
http10
virtual-machine10
chrome-extension10
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
shazow/ssh-chat
Dec 2014 - Nov 2022
Chat over SSH.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 33 reviews, 423 commits in 8 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Andrey primarily focused on developing the back-end functionality for the ssh-chat application. They implemented makefile improvements, and worked on the core chat logic, including the server and client architecture. They also added support for the /me command and refactored code related to user interaction within the chat. They designed a system for displaying announcements and user statuses.
sshssh-chatchatserver
urllib3/urllib3
Dec 2009 - Dec 2020
urllib3 is a user-friendly HTTP client library for Python
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:67 reviews, 1090 commits, 170 PRs in 11 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Andrey contributed significantly to the development and maintenance of the `urllib3` library. Their work focused on refactoring existing HTTPS-related code, including the implementation and testing of SSL/TLS features. The user also implemented new functionality and addressed bug fixes, as exemplified by their work on handling HTTP and HTTPS requests and resolving issues related to certificate verification and streaming responses.
http-clientpythonurlliburllib3
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