Andy Soffer
Chief Technology Officer at BrontoSource
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolAndy Soffer is a technology leader and founder with 11 years of engineering experience who currently serves as CTO of BrontoSource, a company he founded to automate C/C++ to Rust migrations. Previously he led the C++ Core Libraries team at Google, rising to Staff Software Engineer and shaping low-level developer tooling and infrastructure. With a PhD in Mathematics from UCLA and a BA from Washington University in St. Louis, he blends deep theoretical training with practical systems engineering. He focuses on language interoperability and safe-systems transitions, turning legacy code modernization into repeatable tooling. Based in Boston, he pairs hands-on technical leadership with entrepreneurial drive, shipping compiler-adjacent solutions that reduce risk and developer effort. Notably, his move from a major tech org to found a niche automation startup highlights a rare combination of product insight and compiler-level expertise.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics at Washington University in St. LouisUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (44)
unit-testing10
design-documents10
programming-language10
testing10
carbon-lang10
googletest10
google10
doctest10
mocking10
compiler10
cpp10
assembly9
interpreter9
extensible8
scalable8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
asoffer/Icarus
Sep 2015 - Jan 2023
An experimental general-purpose programming language
Contributions:4 reviews, 3323 commits, 6 PRs in 7 years 5 months
purposecompilerprogramming-languageinterpretergeneral-purpose
asoffer/jasmin
Jul 2022 - Feb 2023
Just Another Stack Machine INterpreter
Contributions:101 commits, 6 PRs, 104 pushes in 7 months
garbage-collectioncompilerstack-machineprogramming-languageinterpreter
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