Alek Shnayder
Web Developer at Eidra
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolAlek Shnayder is a senior web developer and consultant with 10 years of experience building and scaling customer-facing digital products and internal tools, currently focused on React, TypeScript, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL. He excels at translating design and business needs into robust full-stack implementations, having led greenfield projects and extended high-traffic applications for enterprise and consumer brands. His background spans geospatial and 3D mapping, performance-minded microservices (including a Go screenshot service), and accessibility-aware UI work for multi-million monthly-visitor platforms. Comfortable presenting to stakeholders and mentoring teams, he blends product sensibility from an MBA and a product-design BFA with hands-on engineering craft. Notably, he has produced reusable component libraries and an MCP server to bridge GraphQL APIs with LLMs—demonstrating a practical interest in emerging ML integration patterns. Based in Chicago, he combines pragmatic architectural decisions with a strong emphasis on user-driven interaction and measurable performance.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA) Operations Management and Finance Dual-Concentration, Master of Business Administration (MBA) Operations Management and Finance Dual-Concentration at Quinlan School of Business, Loyola University ChicagoCertificate Full Stack Development, Certificate Full Stack Development at Northwestern UniversityBachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Product Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Product Design at Columbia College Chicago
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Github Skills (151)
github10
python10
visual-studio10
file-upload10
javascript10
npm-scripts10
github-desktop10
editor10
api10
maps10
webgl10
git10
electron10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Alek-S/Derivative-Exchange-Lookup
Jan 2016 - Jan 2022
Financial derivative exchange lookup by market code
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 35 pushes in 6 years 1 month
financialcmeexchangetradingcryptocurrency
Alek-S/select-run
Nov 2019 - Nov 2022
A CLI tool to interactively search & select one or many package.json npm scripts to run
Contributions:7 releases, 37 commits, 17 PRs in 3 years
jsonselect-onepackage-jsonnpxnpm-cli
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