Jacob Dubinsky
Staff Developer at Shopify
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Dubinsky is a Staff Developer with 12 years of experience building reliable, performance-sensitive systems and leading engineering teams, currently at Shopify in Old Toronto. He has deep backend experience—especially with networking and SNMP—demonstrated by contributions to the gosnmp Go library where he added GETBULK/GETNEXT support and comprehensive tests. His career spans architecture and hands-on roles at companies like ViaSat, Top Hat, and Ada Inc., delivering everything from low-level C extensions and high-throughput Python services to serverless and containerized deployments. He is comfortable across the stack, having built full-stack web apps, RESTful APIs, and real-time data pipelines with technologies including Go, Python, Scala, Redis, Kafka, and AWS. Known for improving robustness through careful refactoring and testing, he blends system-level thinking with product-focused delivery. Trained as an electrical and electronics engineer at Colorado School of Mines, he brings a hardware-aware perspective to software design and performance trade-offs.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Colorado School of Mines
Github Skills (5)
golang10
snmpd10
snmp10
go10
testing9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
gosnmp/gosnmp
Apr 2014 - Apr 2014
An SNMP library written in Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 2 days
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily focused on improving the functionality and testing of the Go SNMP library. Their contributions involved refactoring code, renaming variables, and updating methods for handling different SNMP request types, specifically GET, GETNEXT, and GETBULK requests. They added support for GETBULK and GETNEXT requests, which involved changes to the data structures and unmarshalling code, as well as adding tests for the new functionalities. They also added specific tests for the GetNext and GetBulk functions.
golangsnmpsnmp-agentsnmpv2-trapsnmpv3
jdubinsky/lisahua.com
Sep 2019 - Feb 2022
Contributions:138 PRs, 193 pushes, 141 branches in 2 years 4 months
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