# Andrew Sorrels

> Staff Software Engineer at Valon

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/andrewsorrels

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Valon
Jan 2023 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer @ Valon
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023

### Senior Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 | Mountain View, CA

### Software Engineering Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Redmond, WA
• Developed User Mode Drivers (UMDF2) for Raspberry Pi 2 running Windows on IoT.
	• Created generic driver for operation of sensors.
	• Reduced driver development time to a matter of hours instead of weeks.
	• Modified Advance Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) table to operate sensors.
Outlined extension to windows sensor API to allow for custom readings from standard sensors.

### Undergraduate Researcher @ Synergy Lab
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Virginia Tech
•	Characterize virtual machines and containers in the cloud.
•	Investigated network and disk performance of virtual machines, docker (lxc) containers, and bare metal machines.
•	Ran a variety of tests to find sources of improvement for docker containers regarding network and disk I/O performance..

### Software Engineering Intern @ Registria
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Palo Alto, CA
Developer for the admin portal and core infrastructure/platform. Most of my responsibilities are related to platform development, be it development of major features or extension of the existing data models. I create rake tasks to handle data import/export and processing as well as enable a more sophisticated reporting system for clients. Work was primarily in Ruby, with frameworks such as Ruby on Rails and gems such as Nokogiri. I work extensively with big data and a MySQL database. I also worked on client end-user facing portals.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Driverless Transportation
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Arlington, VA
Creation of connected vehicle technology testing software and simulation of real time environments.  The software simulates a variety of messages that would be used in real environments for connected vehicles.  I worked on both front-end tools and back-end architecture for simulation and processing of ASN.1 messages, encoded in BER/DER formats, for use in inter-vehicular communication.

### Web Developer Intern @ Registria
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Fairfax, VA
Created user interface for customer product registration using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.  Created scripts to automate transfer of data from a prior interface to new data system.  Business trip to Palo Alto corporate headquarters for presentation and creation of portals.  Worked in low management environment with discretion over project objectives.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science
Virginia Tech
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016

### McLean High School
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-20