# Andrey Klochkov

> Software Engineer at Liftoff Mobile

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/andreyklochkov

Software development professional with background in large scale distributed systems, big data, NoSQL and relational databases.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Liftoff Mobile
Jan 2020 – Present

### Staff Architect @ Kohl's
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020
- Designed and led implementation of Kohls Data Platform, the Google Cloud based platform for big data applications 
- Implemented data management apps in Python, Scala, Spark 
- Implemented dashboards to monitor usage of BigQuery, Dataproc, Cloud Storage, Airflow, Kafka resources and detect performance bottlenecks
- Performed architectural review of new big data applications 
- Assisted application, infrastructure and data science teams with solving challenging technical problems when implementing big data processing applications 
- Defined development process practices, architectural requirements, Definition of Done for big data processing apps 
- Implemented and documented blueprints for typical data processing scenarios 
- Made open source contributions to Apache Airflow and Google big data connectors

Primary technologies:
- Google BigQuery, Dataproc, Cloud Storage 
- Python, Scala 
- Apache Airflow, Spark, Kafka

### Senior Architect @ Grid Dynamics
Jan 2011 – Jan 2018 | SF Bay Area
- Worked as a client facing solution architect, focused on big data, distributed data intensive backend applications
- Created and presented technical proposals to potential and current customers 
- Led offshore teams, providing technical requirements, helping with implementing most complex part of the applications, overseeing technical quality of the delivery 
- Designed and implemented large scale distributed applications and big data processing systems per customer requirements 
- Technical area of expertise included most major RDBMS, Hadoop stack, Google Cloud Big Data stack, In Memory Data Grids, NoSQL databases

### Director of Engineering @ Grid Dynamics
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011
Led Moscow office of Grid Dynamics

Responsibilities:
Overseeing of 10+ development projects with 50+ engineers, hiring, engineers career development and mentorship, performance reviews

### Principal Engineer @ Grid Dynamics
Jan 2008 – Jan 2011 | Moscow, Russian Federation
Executed number of projects in the role of lead engineer

Projects:
- Search engine for a large retail company
- Replatforming of a legacy webstore to a modularized service based system, large retail company
- Started Big Data practice within the company
- Cloud based "platform as a service" for a large eCommerce company

Primary technologies:
Java, Python, Lucene/Solr, Hadoop Map/Reduce, Pig, Hive, AWS, Oracle Coherence, MySQL, DB2

### System Architect @ Minimovie
Jan 2008 – Jan 2008

### Java Team Leader @ Webalta
Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 | Moscow

### Project Manager @ Artezio
Jan 2002 – Jan 2006

### Java Developer @ Artezio
Jan 2001 – Jan 2003

### Java Developer/Team Leader @ Open Pages, Inc
Jan 2000 – Jan 2001


## Education
### Master of Science (MS) in Computer Science
Ryazan State Radiotechnical University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/andrey-klochkov-53a92a1

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Last updated: 2026-04-11