Anton Samoylov
Engineering Manager at Plaid
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAnton Samoylov is an engineering manager in New York with 15 years of experience building high-impact internet products and leading cross-functional teams. He blends deep hands-on expertise in C++, Python and Go with strong communication and organizational skills, transitioning from individual contributor roles at Google and JetBrains to management at Plaid. At Google he led backend efforts for Search’s Ephemeral Events, delivering features with hundreds of millions of impressions and designing logging/A-B testing systems; earlier work on WebLite produced substantial latency and cost savings. Anton is also an active full‑stack open-source contributor to Stellarium, improving GUI, keybindings and merge workflows—an indicator of his attention to both UX and codebase hygiene. Currently focused on growing his people and product management capabilities, he brings a pragmatic, data-informed approach to shipping scalable systems and aligning diverse stakeholders.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Saint Petersburg State University
English, Russian
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Github Skills (18)
c-language10
qt10
user-interface10
ui-design10
interface-design10
front-end-development10
cplus10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
keybindings10
astronomy7
gwt6
decorator6
google-app-engine6
python6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Stellarium/stellarium
Apr 2012 - Sep 2012
Stellarium is a free GPL software which renders realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It is available for Linux/Unix, Windows and macOS. With Stellarium, you really see what you can see with your eyes, binoculars or a small telescope.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:67 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Anton's primary contribution involves enhancements to the user interface and core functionalities. These changes included modifications to the graphical user interface (GUI) elements, creation of keybindings, and improved functionality in dialogs. The commits demonstrate the integration of updated code with the main branch, showcasing proficiency in merging and codebase management, with specific attention to adding global keybindings.
unixc-plus-plusrealisticreal-timeuniverse
EvilTosha/copter-pwm-ctrl-qt
Feb 2013 - May 2013
Contributions:115 commits in 3 months
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