Alexander Snurnikov
Staff Software Engineer at Instacart
Old Toronto, Ontario, United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Snurnikov is a Staff Software Engineer with over a decade of experience designing and scaling full-stack systems, currently leading engineering efforts at Instacart. He has a strong background in building high‑performance data pipelines and microservices, and has shipped production systems using Java, Python, Node.js, Postgres/Mongo, Angular, and AWS. He’s delivered end-to-end products from startup (Plottio) to enterprise, driving rapid betas, payments integrations, and custom rich-web editors, and at MPAC cut big-data processing times from weeks to hours. An active contributor to open-source web tooling, he helped refactor Mozilla’s Thimble front-end—modularizing inline JavaScript and adding collaborative features—illustrating a focus on maintainability and UX. Combining technical depth with an MBA and hands-on product experience, he balances architecture, delivery, and practical optimizations that accelerate teams. Based in Toronto, he brings both startup grit and large-scale engineering discipline to complex distributed systems.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. CS - Bachelor of Science (Honors) Computer Science, B.Sc. CS - Bachelor of Science (Honors) Computer Science at Seneca PolytechnicM.B.A. - Master of Business Administration, M.B.A. - Master of Business Administration at Simon Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economics
English, Russian, Ukrainian, French
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Github Skills (9)
html10
css10
javascript10
web-development10
front-end-development10
google-analytics9
requirejs8
jquery8
bower7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla/thimble.mozilla.org
Jan 2014 - Mar 2014
UPDATE: This project is no longer maintained. Please check out Glitch.com instead.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to front-end development by moving inline JavaScript code into separate files and adjusting file paths. They implemented and integrated various scripts to enhance the functionality of the web application, including the addition of Google Analytics, together.js for collaborative features, and authentication scripts. The user's work included modifying HTML templates and CSS files, updating dependencies, and correcting code alignment. This work involved significant refactoring and modularization of existing JavaScript code.
glitchphpupdateglitch-comjavascript
admix/tessel
Apr 2016 - Sep 2019
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
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