Ksenia Kold
Senior Software Engineer at Snap Inc.
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolKsenia Kold is a Senior Software Engineer based in Los Angeles with nine years of experience building scalable backend systems and polished front-end experiences. At Snap she led backend architecture for Lens Studio Mobile & Web, designing distributed Java/Temporal/DynamoDB systems and owning reliability, rollout, and performance testing for compute-heavy pipelines. She pairs hands-on engineering with team leadership—scoping work, driving technical direction, and establishing operational excellence including monitoring, runbooks, and on-call readiness. Earlier roles include leading UI and PWA efforts with Next.js/Nuxt and building developer tooling and CLIs in TypeScript, plus a prolific freelance portfolio delivering 200+ CMS and e-commerce sites. Ksenia holds an MS in Applied Artificial Intelligence, bringing ML-aware thinking to systems design that balance latency, scalability, and maintainability. Multilingual and classically trained in Romance languages, she combines analytical rigor with clear cross-functional communication.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Romance Languages Literatures and Linguistics, Romance Languages Literatures and Linguistics at Moscow Pedagogical State UniversityBachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at California State University, Monterey BayMasters MS in Applied Artificial Intelligence, Masters MS in Applied Artificial Intelligence at University of San DiegoAssociate of Science - AS Computer Science, Associate of Science - AS Computer Science at Santa Monica College
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Github Skills (7)
fitness7
logger5
logging5
shopify4
java4
desktop3
grpc3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kseniacold/java-fitness-logger
Sep 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:1 release, 167 commits, 67 PRs in 1 year 4 months
loggerfitnessloggingdesktopjava
zehnergroup/z-text-tools
Apr 2020 - Nov 2020
Helper Tools For Theme Development
Contributions:8 PRs, 15 pushes, 7 branches in 6 months
csstheme-development
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