Victor Shnayder
Independent Researcher at Self-employed
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolVictor Shnayder is an independent researcher and product leader with 11+ years of experience building AI-driven products and platforms, particularly at the intersection of education and reinforcement learning. He has led product and engineering teams at Microsoft/Bonsai and edX, designing machine teaching workflows, a visual no-code authoring language, and analytics tools that scale learning and industrial control solutions. Comfortable switching between hands-on technical work and cross-functional leadership, he blends PhD-level research in online education and peer learning with practical product delivery. Victor is drawn to problems that measurably improve human effectiveness and learning, and he mentors teams to prioritize real user impact, clear communication, and engineering craft. Based in the Bay Area, he brings a rare mix of classroom teaching, academic research, and shipping AI product experience that helps bridge theory to production.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Harvard UniversityBSE Computer Science, BSE Computer Science at Princeton University
Russian, French
Stackoverflow
103reputation
53kreached
2answers
1question
Github Skills (33)
lms10
bonsai10
pytorch9
python9
edx9
docker8
deep-learning8
robot8
tensorflow8
machine-learning8
tower8
simulation8
data-science8
simulator8
openedx8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
shnayder/deep-learning-workshop
Feb 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:1 release, 25 commits, 14 pushes in 1 month
BonsaiAI/bonsai-tutorials
Mar 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:3 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 11 months
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