Iakov Sumygin
Software Engineer at Snap Inc.
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolIakov Sumygin is a seasoned software engineer with over 12 years of professional experience and a 25-year history of shipping user-facing products, from bespoke game engines to large-scale cloud platforms. Currently at Snap, he leads backend engineering and infrastructure for PlayCanvas, driving containerization, Kubernetes migrations, CDN-backed asset delivery, and platform security while eliminating downtime and cutting global latency by half. His background spans low-level C++ systems and rendering work at Amazon and Wargaming—delivering video and graphics engines at scale—and hands-on leadership on Smart TV browser and DRM integrations at Samsung. He combines deep systems, performance, and security expertise with a pragmatic focus on observability, automated testing, and Infrastructure-as-Code. Known for solving tricky cross-platform and serialization problems, he also has a history of building custom 3D visualization tools for enterprise clients.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Applied Mathematics, Applied Mathematics at Turkmen State University
English, Russian
Github Skills (68)
webgpu10
javascript-game-engine10
game-development10
javascript10
gltf10
game-engine10
javascript-game10
opengl10
webgl10
typescript10
virtual-reality10
nodejs10
viewer10
cocos-creator10
webxr10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
yak32/glw_imgui
Sep 2016 - Nov 2019
Contributions:1 release, 85 commits, 101 pushes in 3 years 2 months
yak32/blog
Apr 2017 - Feb 2021
Contributions:96 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
jekyll-blogjekylljekyll-thememinutes
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