Sonya Smirnova
Senior Software Engineer at American Institutes for Research
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolSonya Smirnova is a Senior Software Engineer in San Diego with eight years of experience building full-stack, data-driven systems that bridge engineering, product, and analytics. She designs scalable backend architectures with Python and Django, optimizes geospatial Postgres/PostGIS workflows, and crafts interactive React visualizations that speed decision-making for policy and research teams. At AIR she helped build the world’s largest subnational crop production database and has repeatedly cut data processing and report times by 40–70% through ETL automation and API-driven platforms. Sonya pairs hands-on coding and mentoring with pragmatic product sense, translating complex stakeholder needs into reliable, production-ready solutions. Her background in ecology and product management gives her a rare perspective on applying engineering rigor to real-world, high-stakes data problems. Outside work she gravitates toward creative problem framing—earning her GitHub persona as a “Software Sorceress | Data Sculptor” who turns messy data into actionable stories.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Data Visualization and Analytics, Data Visualization and Analytics at The George Washington UniversityProject Management, Project Management at University of the District of ColumbiaMaster of Science - MS, Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computer Software Engineering at Western Governors UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Ecology, Master of Science - MS, Ecology at Ural Federal University
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Github Skills (54)
recurrent10
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herokuapp10
keras-neural-networks10
flask10
react10
apache9
data-science9
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keras-models9
visualization9
data-analytics9
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python9
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sonyasha/chromedriver-heroku
Jul 2018 - Aug 2019
Web scraping with Selenium Webdriver and MongoDB, deployed to Heroku
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 1 year 1 month
herokupythonweb-automationflaskchromedriver
sonyasha/natural-language-translation
Jul 2018 - Aug 2019
Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning, Keras and Recurrent Neural Networks. Deployed to Heroku.
Contributions:101 commits, 3 PRs, 61 pushes in 1 year 1 month
herokupythonkeras-modelslanguage-processingflask
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