Alek Shnayder
Web Developer Sr Consultant at Eidra North America
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 (103)
github10
file-upload10
javascript10
npm-scripts10
github-desktop10
editor10
react-component10
api10
maps10
git10
electron10
typescript10
visual-studio-code10
visualization10
microsoft10
Programming languages (9)
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/Scrapeosaurus
Jun 2017 - Oct 2019
Hacker News Web Scraper - Mongo, Express, HandleBars, Cheerio, Mocha, Supertest
Contributions:2 PRs, 36 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 4 months
cheeriohandlebarsmongodbsupertestwebscraper
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