# Alexander Snurnikov

> Staff Software Engineer | Scaling with AI | Occasional advisor to early-stage founders on engineering & scale

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alexandersnurnikov

I’m a Staff Software Engineer with 15+ years of experience building and scaling systems at large tech companies.

Outside my day-to-day role, I occasionally mentor and advise early-stage founders; primarily at the pre-seed and Seed stage - on early architecture decisions, senior engineering hires, and scaling pitfalls.

I enjoy helping teams avoid mistakes I’ve seen repeatedly over the years, especially in fast-moving environments with limited resources.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Instacart
Jan 2024 – Present | United States
- Designed AI-based system that dramatically improves the onboarding experience for new partners joining Instacart
- Integrated an AI-based workflow into the dev tools to improve dev velocity & accuracy
- Leveraging AI to keep the documentation clean, concise & up to date
- Leading the onboarding experience for Marketplace and Whitelabel offerings at Instacart

### Senior Software Engineer II @ Instacart
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada

### Senior Software Engineer @ Instacart
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Toronto, Canada Area

### Software Engineer @ Unata Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Toronto, Canada Area

### Software Engineer/Architect @ MPAC
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | 1340 Pickering, Ontario, Canada
-	Full Stack development: Java/Python/Nodejs | Postgres/Mongo | Angular | AWS
-	Designing, developing, maintaining highly available / scalable applications
-	Designed and implemented scalable core system to process big data pipelines, which boosted performance from weeks to hours
-	R&D in data massaging, processing and analysis. Implemented caching layers across different microservices in the application.
-       Worked on designing and building Microservices Architecture for a core application of a company. 
-	Agile

### Lead Software Engineer @ Plottio
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Toronto, Canada Area
- Built Plottio web application from scratch using MEAN stack + AWS Infrastructure
- Released beta version within weeks from start to get traction and first feedback
- Got 200-300 customers posting and using the platform within first couple months.
- Constantly delivered bugfixes anf new features/tweaks
- Integrated FB,Twitter and Gmail auth
- Integrated Stripe as a payment provider to accept credit card payments
- Developed custom web text editor and integrated into the app

### Software Engineer @ Mozilla
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Toronto
- Worked on improvements for variety of Mozilla’s open source projects.
- Integrated Content Security Policy, Google Analytics with extensive customizations into all Mozilla web products
- Experience working with the team from different timezones

### Software Engineer @ Canvarise
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
•  Co-founded the company (Canvarise.com) to provide users with the ability to create business plans on one page and work on them in collaborative environment
•  Canvas is based on Alexander Osterwalder's business model and provides an easy and effective way to store startup ideas on one page

### Software Engineer @ 3D Condo Explorer Inc.
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | Toronto, Canada


## Education
### B.Sc. CS - Bachelor of Science (Honors) in Computer Science
Seneca Polytechnic

### M.B.A. - Master of Business Administration
Simon  Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economics

### B.B.A. - Bachelor of Business Administration
Simon  Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economics


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alexandersnurnikov
- Website: https://youtube.com/channel/UCcIZ2m9xI8XlYfZt83k01mw?sub_confirmation=1

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Last updated: 2026-03-22