Summary
Sergey Smirnov is a Senior Software Engineer in the Bay Area with 11 years of hands-on experience building large-scale, mission-critical systems across companies like LinkedIn, Meta, Amazon, Flexport, and Lime. He specializes in backend engineering for high-throughput services—sales performance and compensation tooling, data-governance pipelines, voice-assistant clients, and freight search/catalog systems—bringing product-focused rigor to complex domains. Sergey is comfortable shipping end-to-end features and leading release cycles, and he has a track record of centralizing analytics and privacy workflows to speed remediation and decision-making. Based in San Jose, he balances a technical career with an active life as a weekend racecar driver and photographer, a hobby that mirrors his precision and focus on continual improvement.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at New York University
Foothill College
English, Russian