Andriy Svyryd
Principal Consistency Person at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAndriy Svyryd is a Principal software leader with 14 years at Microsoft focused on developer experience, programming tools, languages and data frameworks, currently shaping Entity Framework as a member of the EF team. He blends deep backend and database engineering expertise—contributing significant fixes and features across EF Core, EF tooling/scaffolding, and a MySQL/MariaDB provider—with a strong emphasis on testing, reliability, and migration semantics. Andriy is a prolific open-source contributor and technical writer, improving documentation and test coverage for widely used .NET projects such as aspnetcore, NuGet, and EF Core. Based in Redmond, he combines hands-on implementation of low-level type mappings and constraints with leadership in API consistency, often solving subtle cross-database and tooling edge cases that quietly improve developer productivity.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
Russian, Ukrainian, Spanish, English, French
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Github Skills (34)
nuget10
package-management10
mysql10
testing10
net10
dotnet10
entity-framework-core10
asp-net-core10
migration10
asp-net10
model-building10
entity-framework10
code-generation10
sql10
database-design10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/efcore
Apr 2014 - Jan 2023
EF Core is a modern object-database mapper for .NET. It supports LINQ queries, change tracking, updates, and schema migrations.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3442 reviews, 1241 commits, 2697 PRs in 8 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Andriy primarily contributed to improving the Entity Framework Core (EF Core) project by addressing bug fixes and implementing new features related to check constraints. The contributions involved updating the entity type on check constraints when converting to a STET and ensuring the correct value is used when the discriminator is part of the key. Furthermore, the user added support for the model builder APIs for Sqlite-specific metadata.
change-trackingdatabasedotnetefcorelinq
dotnet/EntityFramework.Docs
Oct 2017 - Nov 2022
Documentation for Entity Framework Core and Entity Framework 6
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:458 reviews, 77 commits, 185 PRs in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Andriy primarily contributed to the documentation of the Entity Framework Core and Entity Framework 6 projects. Their commits added and updated documentation pages, including examples and code snippets, for various features such as IModelCacheKeyFactory, HasBaseType, scale and precision configuration, connection resiliency, UWP page updates, index filters, data seeding, System.Transactions, owned collections, table splitting, Cosmos DB, keyless entity types, many-to-many relationships, TPT configuration, view mapping, excluding tables from migrations, ETag configuration, property bag entity types, IEntityTypeConfiguration, and WithPartitionKey. The contributions focused on clarifying concepts and providing practical examples within the documentation set.
entity-frameworkentity-framework-coreormentity-framework-6
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