Andrey Sokolov
Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Greater Sydney Area Australia
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Top SchoolAndrey Sokolov is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building networking and distributed systems, currently developing network controllers at AWS from his base in Queensland, Australia. His background blends high-performance C++ and Python engineering for flight path optimization, field robotics, and financial and scientific simulation, reflecting a strong foundation in modeling complex stochastic and physical systems. He holds dual PhDs—one in Astronomy and another-level work in Econophysics—and has transitioned academic rigor into scalable production systems across aviation and cloud domains. Comfortable across DevOps, build/test automation, and web services on AWS, he brings a practical focus on reliability and performance. A less obvious strength is his long-running trajectory from computational astrophysics to production networking, which gives him deep experience translating research-grade algorithms into robust, operational software.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma (5 year B.Sc. equiv.), Astronomy and Mathematics, Diploma (5 year B.Sc. equiv.), Astronomy and Mathematics at Saint Petersburg State UniversityThe University of MelbourneDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Astronomy, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Astronomy at Boston University
English, Russian
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Github Skills (33)
robotics10
fundamental9
gradient-descent9
python9
blas9
ndarray9
interpolation9
mpi9
linear-algebra9
numerics9
numba9
cpp9
convolution9
finite-element-analysis8
scientific-computing8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
andsok75/earthclock
Mar 2024 - Jun 2024
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 tags in 3 months
cppstudygroup/traits
Jan 2020 - Feb 2020
Contributions:7 pushes, 4 branches in 17 days
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