# Valera Fooksman

> Principal Software Engineer at A9.com

Location: Redwood City, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/valera

Software engineer with 20 years of experience in software design (mostly C/C++); experience with fast processing of large amounts of data, complicated data structures, time-consuming algorithms, graphics; experience in team management; proficient in C/C++, Python, JavaScript, Perl.

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer @ A9.com
Jan 2017 – Present | Palo Alto, California

### Software Engineer @ A9.com
Jan 2012 – Present | Palo Alto
- Member of the Search Infrastructure Team

### Software Engineer @ Yandex
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Palo Alto, CA
- Worked on the new generation Web Crawler;
- Worked on special search wizards (e.g., Postal Tracker);
- Worked as part of the Machine Learning and Relevance team on improving search ranking performance;

### Senior Software Engineer @ Tektronix
Jan 2007 – Jan 2011
(SyntheSys Research was bought by Tektronix in April 2010)
Designing data acquisition and processing algorithms, hardware communication, time-critical performance and more. Writing kernel drivers, midle-tier algorithms and application logic, and GUI.

### Staff Software Engineer @ EFI
Jan 2005 – Jan 2007
Developing functional modules for Fiery standalone printer controllers, creating a new build system

### Staff Software Engineer @ LeCroy
Jan 2004 – Jan 2005
Design and develop Core Analyzer Software, the main part of all Bus Protocol Analyzers and Generators. LeCroy has purchased CATC, so I changed the job without leaving my office.

### Software Team Manager @ CATC
Jan 1998 – Jan 2004
Design, develop and manage the Software Core Library used by all Bus Protocol Analyzers and Generators made by CATC.
In October 2004 CATC was purchased by LeCroy so I became a LeCroy employee.

### Senior S/W Engineer @ Transas Marine
Jan 1991 – Jan 1997


## Education
### MS in Computer Science
St.Petersburg University of Electrical Engineering, Russia


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/valera-fooksman-2b9198

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Last updated: 2026-04-10