Andrey Volkov
Software Architect at Forcode
Moscow, Moscow City, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrey Volkov is a seasoned Software Architect with 10+ years building web, fintech, and cloud infrastructure systems from Moscow. He combines hands-on backend engineering with team leadership experience gained at companies from Mail.Ru and LAMODA to Mirantis and his current role at Forcode, often owning architecture and delivery for payment and reporting platforms. Andrey has deep OpenStack experience—contributing to the Nova compute project where he improved instance management, API consistency and Python 3 compatibility—highlighting his comfort with large-scale open-source cloud codebases. His background includes designing billing, SMS processing and analytics systems, showing a pragmatic focus on reliability, monitoring and data aggregation for revenue-critical services. Collected leadership roles (team lead, head of development) reflect his ability to translate complex requirements into maintainable systems and mentor engineering teams. Trained as an engineer at Bauman Moscow State Technical University, he blends academic rigor with production-proven cloud and fintech expertise.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer, Computer Science, Magister, Engineer, Computer Science, Magister at Bauman Moscow State Technical University
English, Russian
Github Skills (12)
servicenow10
openstack10
api10
computation10
python10
apidoc10
back-end-development10
database-management9
rest-api8
api-rest8
restful-api8
api-design8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/nova
May 2016 - Feb 2019
OpenStack Compute (Nova). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:50 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Andrey primarily contributed to the OpenStack Nova compute project, focusing on improving instance management and overall system stability. Their work included fixing bugs related to instance naming, making compute API calls more consistent, and streamlining code for Python 3 compatibility. They also improved the efficiency of instance listing by optimizing database queries and implemented a new conductor method for improved instance creation. The user demonstrated strong understanding of the project's architecture.
novaopendevopenstackcompute
amadev/emacs-conf
Feb 2016 - Jan 2025
Contributions:92 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years
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