Summary
Vlad Silin is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and shipping production software across fintech and consumer domains, currently leading engineering efforts at Capital One in Toronto. His background spans full-stack web, mobile, Java backend systems, and data/embedded adjacent interests—evidenced by contributions to customer-facing credit products and internal developer tooling. He favors open, feedback-driven teams and combines hands-on coding with mentorship to move projects from pilot to scale (including a 200k-customer enrolment pilot). Vlad’s technical curiosity extends to computational linguistics and data engineering, bringing cross-disciplinary perspectives to platform and analytics problems. Outside core engineering, he’s applied his practical teaching skills as a snowboard instructor, a hint at his patient, hands-on coaching style.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
English