Pouya Sanooei
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Hit the Books
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolPouya Sanooei is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and delivering scalable, secure cloud-native systems, currently leading architecture at Nylas in Toronto. He blends hands-on engineering in Go, Node, Kubernetes and AWS with product-minded leadership—having progressed from senior full-stack roles to engineering management and now senior staff. Pouya emphasizes reliability, performance and cost-aware designs while maintaining strong cross-functional communication and operational ownership. An active open-source contributor, he improved backend login, signature and sync features for the popular goinsta Instagram API wrapper, demonstrating practical expertise in API integrity and testing. His background spans frontend and mobile stacks (React, React Native), multiple backends and server administration, giving him a rare full-stack-to-infrastructure perspective.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
2 Years Associate's degree Computer Software Engineering, 2 Years Associate's degree Computer Software Engineering at Azad University (IAU)Pre University High School Mathematics, Pre University High School Mathematics at Darya NoorACS Programmer Analyst / Internet Solutions Developer, ACS Programmer Analyst / Internet Solutions Developer at CDI College, Toronto
English, Persian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
apidoc10
authentication10
user-authentication10
instagram-api10
go10
api10
json9
testing8
cross-compiling6
google-compute-engine6
react6
gcloud6
redux-form6
redux6
javascript6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
ahmdrz/goinsta
Feb 2017 - Apr 2017
Unofficial Instagram API written in Golang
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 4 PRs, 20 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Pouya primarily contributed to the backend logic of the Instagram API wrapper, `goinsta`. They added functionalities to the `Login` process and integrated essential API calls like `SyncFeatures` and `AutoCompleteUserList`. The user also fixed issues related to post bodies, signature generation, and implemented checks for login failures. Furthermore, the user added tests and methods to the API, improving its functionality and robustness.
golangapiinstagram-unofficial-apiinstagram-apiinstagram
sourcesoft/dotfiles
Mar 2016 - Jan 2023
Contributions:274 commits, 287 pushes, 7 branches in 6 years 10 months
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