Alessio Symons
Senior Software Engineer at Coinbase
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolAlessio Symons is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of full‑stack experience building high‑impact product features and performance improvements across fintech and consumer platforms. Currently at Coinbase after a rapid internal promotion, he has a track record of shipping migrations and features that improved NPS and reduced page load times, and previously boosted merchant sign-ups and handled billion‑document migrations at Wish. He blends React/TypeScript frontends with Go and Python backends, and has delivered high‑throughput systems (email service handling 20k+ QPS) and scalable data tooling. Alessio also champions engineering best practices—publishing runbooks, component libraries, and instrumentation dashboards—to make teams more consistent and measurable. Known for pragmatic scoping and mentorship, he routinely turns ambiguous product goals into A/B tested, productionized solutions that move key metrics. Based in Old Toronto and author of alessio.ca, he pairs hands‑on coding with cross‑functional leadership across product, design, and analytics.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (45)
dotnet10
dedicated-server10
google-calendar-api9
tricks9
design-patterns8
manage8
google-api8
javascript7
react7
relay6
android6
relay-modern6
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java6
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
team4716/4716frc2015
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:8 commits in 24 days
team4716/2015Robot
Mar 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:2 commits in 1 month
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