Alex Shnitman
Principal Architect at PlainID - The Authorization Company
Israel
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Top SchoolAlex Shnitman is a Principal Architect with over 20 years of hands-on experience designing cloud-native, serverless SaaS and hybrid solutions with a strong emphasis on security, authentication, and networking. Based in Israel, he has led architecture and product bootstrapping at PlainID and driven secure access and gateway services at CyberArk, combining technical stewardship with customer engagement and team mentoring. His background spans embedded Linux and protocol-level engineering up through modern AWS serverless stacks, giving him rare depth across application, network, and encryption domains. An avid problem-solver and continuous learner, he also contributes to open-source projects—most recently improving the UX and quality-selection flow of a self-hosted YouTube downloader—reflecting a pragmatic focus on user-facing value as well as infrastructure excellence.
6 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Network Engineering, Network Engineering at Jerusalem College of Technology
Hebrew, Russian, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (14)
html10
yt-dlp10
self-hosting10
ytdl10
youtube10
angular10
bootstrap9
javascript9
bootstra9
sass8
ui-design8
malloc6
embedded-linux6
swapfile6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
alexta69/metube
Nov 2019 - Dec 2022
Self-hosted video downloader for YouTube and other sites (web UI for yt-dlp)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 47 reviews, 109 commits in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the front-end development of the MeTube project, enhancing the user interface and adding features. Their work included adding a favicon, implementing a "completed" panel, and modifying the application component. They also integrated quality selection, which suggests they worked on features that impact both front-end and back-end aspects of the application, indicating a focus on user experience and functionality. This demonstrates a strong understanding of the project's architecture and user-facing elements.
youtubeyt-dlpyoutube-dl
cavazzatommaso/metube
Feb 2023 - Feb 2023
youtube-dl web UI
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
youtube-dl-webweb-uiyoutubeyoutube-dl
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