Andrei Smirnov - Freelance .NET Developer for Hire

Senior Software Engineer

MBLSFT

2015 - PRESENT

Designed and developed a secure messaging applications suite for Blackberry.
Built web applications from the ground up and ported a legacy Angular application.
Designed and developed back-end services, debugging, and profiling.

Technologies: JavaScript (ES6), React.js, Go, C++, Qt, Digital Security

Technical Lead

Return On Intelligence

2014 - PRESENT

Designed and developed a web portal for employee benefits management (insurance, retirement, etc.).
Introduced a web services mocking approach to ease local debugging and troubleshooting.
Enabled automatic testing using Selenium.
Drastically improved corporate build and deployment strategy to minimize day-to-day efforts.
Implemented and enforced product quality tools.

Technologies: ASP.NET, AngularJS, Web Services

Freelance Software Engineer

DreamFactory

2015 - 2015

Designed and developed .NET SDK for DreamFactory API: https://github.com/dreamfactorysoftware/.net-sdk.

Technologies: .NET, C#, RESTful API

Lead Application Developer

Deutsche Bank AG

2013 - 2014

Enhanced WPF applications (FX Trading) for investment banking in respect to performance, security, and code quality.
Developed a number of WPF Controls (MVVM).
Designed and developed a metadata-driven framework for desktop interoperability and enabled several existing applications to use this framework.

Technologies: C#, .NET, WPF, Prism, Roslyn, DSL

Software Developer

Microsoft Corporation

2010 - 2012

Developed a rapid data serialization SDK (similar to Google ProtoBuf), including the C# code generator for it.
Developed an object-oriented logging framework (business data logging) for in-house cloud infrastructure, now used by AdCenter and Bing.
Implemented a remote-procedure calls (RPC) engine and toolset for a brand new key-value store (NoSQL) used in Microsoft Online Services.

Technologies: C#, .NET, NoSQL, C++, MapReduce

Senior Software Engineer

EMC Corporation

2009 - 2010

Worked on a high-availability Linux-based cluster (HA), integrating and configuring Pacemaker for network-attached storage (NAS).
Introduced cgroups feature usage to the HA cluster.
Developed an out-of-memory (or overcommit) monitoring daemon in C.

Technologies: Enterprise Linux (SuSE), C++/C, HA, Pacemaker

Senior Software Engineer

Motorola, Inc.

2006 - 2009

Worked on several Motorola mobile device platforms, implementing security features (JSR177), branding services (T-Mobile MyFaves), etc.
Integrated Adobe Flash Lite player to the mainstream Motorola mobile platform (P2K). Collaborated with Adobe.
Participated in AJAR mobile platform development.
Developed a number of internal tools for embedded software development in C# and C++.

Technologies: C++ and .NET, Embedded, J2ME

Senior Software Engineer

The Institute of Telecommunications

2002 - 2005

Designed and developed a 3D engine for GIS (Geo informational services) in C++, STL, and OpenGL.
Developed a cross-platform computational geometry math library in C++.
Created a whole family of end-user 3D applications in C++ and Qt (Viewer, Editor, utilities, etc.).
Programmed a large-images processing engine (satellite imagery) in C and C++.

Technologies: C++/C, 3D graphics, OpenGL, Qt, Delphi

REVERSCREEN (Development)

http://reverscreen.com/

REVERSCREEN is a concept of a new snipping tool that provides automatic object cropping by leveraging modern computer vision algorithms. The project was made for fun in my spare time and does not compete with any businesses.

Bing.com (Other amazing things)

http://www.bing.com

Collaborated to create Bing.com using the NoSQL database at Microsoft.

DB Autobahn (Other amazing things)

https://autobahn.db.com

A family of UI products developed as part of a team.

Demoscene: 4k Intro (Development)

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=54415

Made for fun, in 4096 bytes of C and OpenGL.

Sochi - 3D Engine for GIS (Other amazing things)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNE4WX1v-W8#t=204

Developed a cross-platform 3D engine in C/C++ with OpenGL. It was used by Russian DoDF.

Computational Geometry API for Nokia Gate5 GmbH (Development)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh1eUudkxgc

Designed and developed a computational geometry library for 2D/3D graphics, used in a fork of Nokia Maps.

Autobahn Toolbar (Development)

https://www.toolbar.autobahn.db.com

Implemented core functionality of the Toolbar, a central UX component used by many trading apps.

.NET SDK for DreamFactory RESTful API (Development)

https://github.com/dreamfactorysoftware/.net-sdk

Designed and developed .NET SDK v1 for DreamFactory.

A Note-taking Application for BlackBerry 10 (Development)

https://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/59972037

Developed in my spare time just for fun.

Retirement Benefits Management Portal for Mercer.com (Other amazing things)

http://www.mercer.com

Collaborated to design and develop the complete web portal for mercer.com used by third parties to manage their employee benefits.

Stack: .NET, MS SQL, AngularJS

Route66: A Car Repair Shop (web application) (Development)

https://github.com/pinebit/route66

A React.js web application with Redux, Node, Mongo, and Firebase.

vault (Development)

https://github.com/pinebit/vault

Vault is a tiny C++ library that manages password-protected files.

How to Bootstrap and Create .NET Projects (Publication)

https://www.toptal.com/dot-net/bootstrap-and-create-dot-net-projects

To create a .NET project from scratch, simply using Visual Studio Wizard is good enough most of the time. However, the default project settings produced by wizards are hardly acceptable for professional teams, as they set too low of a bar on quality. In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Andrei Smirnov guides us through several standard practices, configuration files, and project settings every developer should apply when starting a new .NET project. Doing this in the very beginning of a project decreases future technical debt and makes product source code readable and professional-looking.

Meet Bond, Microsoft Bond - A New Data Serialization Framework (Publication)

https://www.toptal.com/microsoft/meet-bond-microsoft-bond

Microsoft Bond is a modern data serialization framework. It provides powerful DSL and flexible protocols, code generators for C++ and C#, efficient protocol implementations for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. This article is a quick guide of the features and use of this framework.

.NET Best Practices and Tips by Toptal Developers (Publication)

https://www.toptal.com/dot-net/tips-and-practices

This resource contains a collection of .NET best practices and tips provided by our Toptal network members.

Languages

XML, C#, C, JavaScript, C++, Go, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), Domain-specific Languages (DSLs), QML, UML, Solidity

Frameworks

.NET, Redux, Qt, Selenium, AngularJS, WPF, Windows Communication Framework (WCF), ASP.NET Web API, NUnit, Google Protocol Buffer, Bootstrap, Ionic

Libraries/APIs

React.js, React-redux, ETW, Win32 API, Protobuf, OpenSSL, OpenGL, jQuery

Tools

Git, Stash, JIRA, ReSharper, Visual Studio, MSBuild, TortoiseSVN, TeamCity, CC.NET, SonarQube, Roslyn, TFS, Grav, ClearCase

Paradigms

REST, Unit Testing, Agile Software Development, Test-driven Development (TDD), Concurrent Programming

Platforms

Windows, BlackBerry 10, Linux, Blockchain, Windows Phone, Ethereum

Other

IPC, Code Contracts, Embedded Systems

Storage

Microsoft SQL Server, SQLite, NoSQL, MySQL

Specialist degree in Engineering

Baltic State Technical University - Saint-Petersburg, Russia

1996 - 2002