Andrei Smirnov

Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Member since September 30, 2014

Andrei is a passionate full-stack software engineer with 15+ years of experience who has worked for Microsoft, EMC, Motorola, Deutsche Bank, and other big-name brands. He has built a number of successful projects utilizing various software stacks, for mobile, desktop and web platforms. He is well versed in C++, C#, and JavaScript languages as well as the most in-demand frameworks, libraries, and tools.

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Portfolio

MBLSFT
JavaScript (React), C++, Qt/QML, Digital Security
Return On Intelligence
ASP.NET, AngularJS, Web Services
DreamFactory
.NET, C#, RESTful API

Experience

C/C++, 13 years
Concurrent Programming, 11 years
C#, 10 years
.NET, 10 years
JavaScript, 6 years
WPF, 3 years
React.js, 2 years
AngularJS, 2 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

WebStorm, Visual Studio, Windows or Mac

The most amazing...

...thing I've coded is a metadata-driven interoperability framework that is adopted by Deutsche Bank and currently in production.

Employment

Freelance Software Engineer
MBLSFT
2015 - PRESENT
- Designed and developed secure messaging applications suite for mobile platform (C++, BlackBerry).
- Built a complex web application (React + Redux) from scratch.
- Worked on investigating business critical security issues, vulnerabilities, and appropriate solutions for them.
Technologies: JavaScript (React), C++, Qt/QML, 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 (satellites imaginary) in C and C++.
Technologies: C++/C, 3D graphics, OpenGL, Qt, Delphi

Experience

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
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.

Skills

Languages
C/C++, C#, XML, JavaScript, VBA, UML, QML, Domain-specific Languages (DSLs)
Frameworks
Qt, .NET, NUnit, WPF, Google Protocol Buffer, AngularJS, Selenium, ASP.NET Web API, Windows Communication Framework (WCF), Redux, Bootstrap, Ionic
Libraries/APIs
React.js, React-redux, OpenSSL, OpenGL, Win32 API, ETW, Protobuf, jQuery
Tools
Stash, Git, JIRA, Visual Studio, ReSharper, Tortoise SVN, Roslyn, SonarQube, TFS, CruiseControl.Net, MSBuild, VTune, XPerf, Prism, ClearCase, Interactive Disassembler (IDA)
Paradigms
Agile Software Development, Unit Testing, Concurrent Programming, Test-driven Development (TDD), REST
Platforms
Windows, Linux, BlackBerry 10, Windows Phone, Embedded
Misc
IPC, Code Contracts
Storage
TeamCity, SQLite, NoSQL, MS SQL

Education

Specialist degree in Engineering
Baltic State Technical University - Saint-Petersburg, Russia
1996 - 2002

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