Summary
Viktor Chynarov is a systems engineer with 13 years of experience building resilient backend and infrastructure systems across companies from startups to large tech (Cloudflare, Whatnot, Meta/Instagram). He blends hands-on systems work (QUIC and HTTP contributions at Meta) with product-focused backend and mobile engineering—launching personalized notification systems, marketing automation pipelines, and auction-experimentation features that moved metrics and scaled to millions of users. Viktor is comfortable across languages and stacks (Elixir, Python/Flask, Postgres, dbt, Dagster, SwiftUI, Android) and has a history of turning manual, error-prone processes into automated platforms relied on company-wide. Based in Toronto, he maintains an active developer footprint on GitHub and npm, signaling ongoing open-source engagement alongside production engineering.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bayview Secondary School
Bachelor of Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, Russian