Andy Grover
Senior Software Engineer II at Akamai Technologies
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolAndy Grover is a senior systems and network software engineer with 18 years of experience building high-performance, production-critical infrastructure for companies like Cloudflare, Mozilla, Red Hat, Oracle, and Intel. He has led teams designing QUIC/HTTP3 and WireGuard-based edge services, shipped large-scale encrypted tunnel systems, and driven kernel and userspace networking projects into mainline use. A pragmatic technologist fluent in Rust, Python, and C, he improves maintainability and safety in complex codebases—examples include refactoring Cloudflare’s boringtun WireGuard implementation and leading Mozilla’s Neqo QUIC work. Based in Portland, he combines deep protocol and kernel-level expertise with a knack for operational reliability and measurable performance gains. Off the clock he plays bass, photographs, and collects clicky keyboards, a hint at his attention to craft and ergonomics. He’s outspoken about practical engineering trade-offs, notably skeptical of web3/crypto hype, which shapes his focus on tangible, dependable systems.
18 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Emory University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
code-optimization10
ips10
net10
ip10
networking10
network-programming10
wireguard10
network10
rust10
refactoring10
linux-kernel9
shell6
operating-system6
latency6
stdout6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
cloudflare/boringtun
Jun 2021 - Jun 2022
Userspace WireGuard® Implementation in Rust
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 6 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Andy primarily focused on refactoring and improving the `boringtun` codebase. They replaced a homegrown trie implementation with the `ip_network_table` crate, reducing code complexity. Additionally, the user addressed Clippy warnings and minimized wildcard use declarations, improving code quality and maintainability. They also removed the `Tun` and `Sock` traits, simplifying the code structure.
userspacecloudflarerustvpnwireguard
agrover/melvin
Jul 2015 - Dec 2020
Rust library for using LVM and Linux devicemapper
Contributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 43 pushes in 5 years 5 months
rustlvmrust-librarylinux
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