Ivan Andreev
Software Engineer at Meta
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolIvan Andreev is a seasoned software engineer with 18 years of experience building high‑load backend systems across Big Tech, Fortune 500s, startups and academia, currently solving problems at Meta from his base in Berlin. He brings deep expertise in .NET/C#, distributed systems, databases and algorithms, underpinned by a Ph.D. in Computer Science and long teaching experience mentoring ACM ICPC and Imagine Cup teams. His career spans senior engineering and CTO/EVP roles where he translated product needs into reliable, scalable architectures for web, mobile and desktop platforms. An active open-source contributor, he has strengthened rclone’s VFS layer—adding case‑insensitive mounts, a mail.ru backend and performance fixes—demonstrating a focus on core functionality and system stability. Pragmatic and research‑minded, he blends hands‑on coding with architectural thinking and a history of shipping production software at scale.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University
Russian, English
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Github Skills (9)
filesystem10
hashing-algorithm10
go10
error-handling9
performance-optimization8
documentation7
sap-ase6
sybase6
tsql6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rclone/rclone
Jun 2019 - Feb 2022
"rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob, Azure Files, Yandex Files
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:367 reviews, 153 commits, 190 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Ivan primarily contributed to enhancing the `vfs` (Virtual File System) component, adding features such as case-insensitive mounting for Windows and macOS. They introduced a mailru hash (mrhash) to enhance file verification, implemented a backend for mail.ru, and addressed several bug fixes, particularly related to timeout management. The user also made improvements to the documentation and optimized performance, indicating a focus on core functionality and system stability.
googlefile-storageyandexonedrivestorage
ivansible/ast-core
Sep 2018 - Feb 2022
Contributions:105 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
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