Irena Shaigorodsky
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolIrena Shaigorodsky is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in Cambridge, MA, with over 20 years of full-stack R&D experience and 11 years in senior engineering leadership roles. She excels at simplifying complex business problems with pragmatic, scalable technical designs—particularly in security and voice interfaces—and has a strong track record of improving reliability and throughput in high‑traffic systems. At Tripadvisor and Google she led architecture and platform initiatives that reduced resolution times, eliminated SSL issues, and enabled seamless migrations from legacy systems. A hands-on architect and mentor, she blends deep systems knowledge (J2EE, microservices, OAuth2) with practical SRE practices to drive measurable operational improvements. Not obvious from the title: she has repeatedly bridged product and infrastructure worlds by designing UI overlays and onboarding blueprints that enable phased migrations and minimize business disruption.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science/Statistics, Bachelor of Science Computer Science/Statistics at Bar-Ilan UniversityMaster of Science Computer Information Systems, Master of Science Computer Information Systems at Boston University
Russian, Hebrew, English
Github Skills (101)
swagger10
rest-api10
swagger-ui10
api10
rest10
gradle10
kotlin10
monitoring9
dashboard9
oas9
openapi9
css9
parsing9
api-documentation9
mysql9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ishaigor/rest-retro-sample
Aug 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:19 commits in 3 months
ishaigor/alexa-skill-demo
Jul 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch, 2 comments in 3 months
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