Nick Snyder
VP Engineering at Weights & Biases
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Snyder is a VP of Engineering with 15 years of experience building full-stack products and scaling teams across web, mobile, and dev tools from early-stage product-market fit to late-stage growth. Based in California, he has led mobile infrastructure and apps at LinkedIn (including the open-sourced LayoutKit) and scaled engineering and revenue at Sourcegraph through multiple funding rounds. He combines hands-on contributions—authoring go-i18n extractors and improving CI/CD/build tooling—with executive leadership at startups like Buf and advisory roles for ML tooling companies such as Weights & Biases. Known for shipping pragmatic engineering solutions across languages and platforms (iOS/Android/Go/Scala), he also mentors founders and engineers to elevate team capabilities. A double Vanderbilt alumnus with top grades, he pairs deep technical craft with a talent for operationalizing and testing robust systems at scale.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
North Central High SchoolB.S., Computer Science Major, Mathematics Major, Economics Minor, 3.95 / 4.00 GPA, B.S., Computer Science Major, Mathematics Major, Economics Minor, 3.95 / 4.00 GPA at Vanderbilt University
Github Skills (28)
ios10
rails-i18n10
translation10
testing10
command-line-interface10
cicd10
go10
ember-i18n10
build-automation10
command-line10
i18n-js10
swift10
devops10
cli10
scripting9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
LinkedInAttic/LayoutKit
Jun 2016 - Oct 2017
LayoutKit is a fast view layout library for iOS, macOS, and tvOS.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 releases, 128 commits, 68 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributed to the `linkedinattic/layoutkit` project by fixing bugs and improving the test suite. They addressed issues specific to iOS versions 8 and 9, making the tests more accurate. Furthermore, the user made the `ReloadableViewLayoutAdapter` class public and implemented the support for animated batch updates and tvOS. These updates suggest a focus on improving the library's functionality and ensuring cross-platform compatibility.
cocoapodslayoutstvoslayoutkitlayout
nicksnyder/go-i18n
Jan 2012 - Dec 2022
Translate your Go program into multiple languages.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 releases, 12 reviews, 294 commits in 11 years
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributed to the development of the `go-i18n` tool. Their initial contributions focused on creating a file extractor to gather translatable strings from Go source code. Later commits expanded the tool's functionality, including support for extracting messages to JSON, providing options for customizing output formats, and generating code for pluralization. The user also reorganized the code and added example usage.
golangtranslationinternationalizationtranslation-filesmultiple-languages
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