Griffin Yacynuk
Senior Software Engineer at DoorDash
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolGriffin Yacynuk is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building scalable production systems across e-commerce and cloud platforms, currently at DoorDash after a multi-role progression at Amazon. He combines a strong backend foundation (Java, Spring, distributed eventing and data pipelines) with practical DevOps and Kubernetes experience, having migrated services to Knative/Istio and automated CI/CD workflows. A University of Toronto Computer Science alumnus focused on machine learning, he brings ML interest into systems work—designing eventing and data pipelines that power analytics and downstream integrations. Griffin’s background includes hands-on product-facing features like localized communications and subscription management as well as tooling that improved observability and deployment reliability. He’s comfortable navigating both startup and large-scale orgs, blending pragmatic engineering with a curious, research-informed approach.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Honours Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at University of Toronto
Github Skills (5)
adaptation6
edit-distance5
least-squares5
similarity4
dynamic-programming2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
gyacynuk/lunardocs
May 2020 - Mar 2022
LunarDocs is a web-based text editor developed by Griffin Yacynuk.
Contributions:20 PRs, 90 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 9 months
griffinreactjavascriptweb-basedtext-based
gyacynuk/DiffTool
Nov 2019 - Mar 2022
An interactive implementation of a text comparison tool, which is based off of an original adaptation of the Wagner-Fischer dynamic programming algorithm for computing edit distance.
Contributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 31 pushes in 2 years 3 months
comparisonsimilaritydistanceedit-distancedynamic-programming
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