Andrey Smirnov
Engineering Lead at Sidero Labs, Inc.
Tbilisi, Georgia
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Top SchoolAndrey Smirnov is an engineering lead with over a decade of hands-on experience building high-availability, high-load backend systems across cloud and distributed environments. Currently leading development at Sidero Labs, he focuses on OS-level infrastructure for distributed systems using Go, Kubernetes, and Buildkit, bringing low-level signal handling together with integration testing. His background includes principal engineering at Microsoft Azure and designing exabyte-scale object storage at Dell EMC, complemented by early leadership roles at Skype and Qik in real-time and messaging systems. Fluent across Go, C/C++, Python, Ruby and PostgreSQL, he combines software architecture instincts with practical devops and release automation skills. A longtime open-source practitioner, he created tools like aptly and a Redis resharing proxy and has taught scalable-system design, reflecting a mix of product-facing delivery and deep systems craftsmanship. Based in Tbilisi, Georgia, Andrey pairs academic roots from MSU with a knack for turning complex distributed requirements into reliable production services.
5 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Lomonosov Moscow State University
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Github Skills (46)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
paraplan/telegram-bot
Feb 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 releases, 2 PRs, 95 pushes in 1 year 1 month
VodoGamer/GrishaBot
May 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:6 releases, 1 review, 18 PRs in 6 months
vkbottlepythonvk-botasync
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