# Andrew Sokolov

> Principal Software Engineer - DNS at scale

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/andrewsokolov

Hands-on Software Engineer offering over twenty years of demonstrated career success in software/network engineering. Result-oriented professional, DevOps advocate, recognized for taking on major initiatives, adapting to rapidly changing environments, and resolving mission-critical issues.

Extensive experience in designing complex distributed technological solutions, Software Development Life Cycle, CI/CD automation.

Excellent background of engineering and operation large scale computing systems and data-transmission networks (Cloud Services, Content Delivery Networks, Cloud Computing, Big Data Analytics, Video Streaming and Video on Demand services, IP/MPLS networks).

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer @ Roblox
Jan 2020 – Present | San Mateo, California, United States

### Senior Director, Software Engineering @ Genesys
Jan 2013 – Jan 2020 | Daly City, CA, United States
Responsible for the Software Development Life Cycle of the "Genesys Cloud Platform on Demand" (SaaS), "Genesys Cloud Infrastructure Unit" (IaC) automation software.
Identified the automation tasks focusing on the replacement of manual labor and/or error-prone actions. Provided task estimation, anticipating bottlenecks, and making trade-offs to balance business needs against technical constraints to meet committed timelines.

### Chief Technology Officer @ NGENIX
Jan 2007 – Jan 2013 | Moscow, Russian Federation
Provided technical leadership for the first and biggest Russian Content Delivery Network from day one. Responsible for all aspects of the design, development, and maintenance of the whole spectrum of CDN-related components.
Built a country-wide CDN from the ground up that spans from Kyiv at the South-West to Vladivostok in the Far East of Russia. NGENIX CDN POPs are present in most cities of one million on the territory of Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan. Organized and established direct connections of the NGENIX CDN POPs to 400+ local broadband networks.

### Chief Technology Officer @ RusComNet
Jan 2001 – Jan 2006 | Moscow, Russian Federation
Provided technical leadership for B2B ISP from day one. Responsible for creating an ISP of a metropolitan-wide capacity.

### R&D Engineer @ MSK-IX
Jan 2001 – Jan 2004 | Moscow, Russian Federation
Responsible for researching various network architectures for IP Multicast routing in large scale interdomain networks. Provided technical support to customer’s network engineers in optimizing their networks in terms of being able to exchange IP Multicast traffic via the MSK-IX IXP.

### Senior Network Engineer @ National Electronic Library
Jan 1999 – Jan 2001 | Moscow, Russian Federation
Responsible for operating and maintaining a company's enterprise network which included over 50 UNIX servers (full-text search database cluster, OCR cluster, Web-servers, etc), routers, and switches.


## Education
### Master of Science in Engineering in Information Systems and Technologies
Moscow State Institute of Radio Engineering, Electronics and Automation (Technical University)


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/andrewsokoloff

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Last updated: 2026-04-12