Alex Snezhko
Software Engineer II at SpaceX
Santa Monica, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Snezhko is a Software Engineer II with seven years of full-stack experience, currently building systems at SpaceX after contributing to Starlink order fulfillment tools. He combines strong academic credentials (BS and MS in Computer Science, both 4.0) with hands-on production work across backend services and frontend frameworks. An active open-source contributor, Alex has enhanced core language features and immutable data structures for the Grain programming language and contributed to high-profile projects like Vue.js, Node.js, and Astro. He has a track record of optimizing services—such as shrinking API payloads at Blackbaud—and scaling teaching and tooling efforts for large user bases, from TAing 400+ students to modernizing job-crawling tools at Indeed. Known for a deep interest in programming languages and frameworks, he brings both language-design sensibilities and pragmatic engineering to developer-facing systems.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, 4.0, Master's degree, Computer Science, 4.0 at North Carolina State University
Russian, English
Github Skills (14)
data-structures10
dynamic-array10
arrayobject10
g10
functional-programming10
lists10
parallel-arrays10
typed-array10
data-structure10
multidimensional-arrays10
gr10
compiler-compiler9
compiler9
webassembly8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
grain-lang/grain
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
The Grain compiler toolchain and CLI. Home of the modern web staple. 🌾
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:346 reviews, 13 commits, 70 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the Grain standard library, implementing several core functional programming features such as `zip`, `unzip`, and `reduceRight` functions for both lists and arrays. They also added new data structures like immutable priority queues, immutable sets, and immutable arrays. Their work demonstrates a focus on enhancing the language's core capabilities and providing developers with foundational tools.
grainfunctional-programmingwebassemblytoolchaincompiler
alex-snezhko/hopper
Aug 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:18 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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