About

Andrey Terentyev is a highly impactful and well-established software engineer, architect, researcher, and ethical hacker with over 12 years of experience in building web, mobile, and desktop applications, as well as various network proxies and servers using a range of languages and frameworks. He has a strong focus on security, performance, and code quality, and is a great leader with excellent communication skills. Andrey is a visionary and thought leader who helps management grow teams and talent and release awesome products. Currently, Andrey is working as a Principal Engineer at Microsoft, where he leads the design, architecture, and implementation of high-profile Azure Networking projects such as Azure Firewall and Virtual WAN. He is also responsible for implementing high-performance Linux-based dataplane services and modularizing and dockerizing existing monolith projects, shortening commit-deploy times from weeks to hours. Andrey is helping embrace Linux, containers, and non-C# languages at Microsoft. Prior to his current role, Andrey worked as a Sr Principal Architect at Citrix, where he led the design and implementation of SaaS, Enterprise Web & VDI Apps delivery via Citrix Cloud. He also designed an extensible and rich SaaS application catalog with popular SaaS apps and implemented a highly scalable cloud delivery pipeline with docker containers and Ansible. Andrey also contributed to making the core Citrix Cloud platform better and supervised the development of NetScaler support for VMware View PCoIP. Andrey has also worked as a Consulting Software Engineer at Bricata, where he helped design and implement high-performance Intel DPDK-based IPS/IDS and authored a number of key features such as transparent SSL proxy and on-demand packet capture. Andrey holds a Master of Science (MS) degree in Applied Mathematics and Cryptography from Tomsk State University. His tech stack includes Azure, Ansible, Docker, and more. He has relevant experience of 18.04 years and is looking for challenging projects in high-performance networking, cloud, distributed systems, and security. Andrey is open to contracting opportunities.