# Daniel Snitkovskiy > Software Engineer, UW Alum, Optimist. Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/danielsnitkovskiy I'm just starting my journey into the world of Software Engineering! UW alumni in CSE, and happy to lend a hand to high-school/college students with questions about the tech industry. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Stripe Jan 2024 – Present 2024: Partial off‑Stripe payment support for Invoicing — shipped. Designed and delivered Bill‑collection operations (initialize/attempt collection) integrated with invoice finalization, enabling correct partial payments, credits, and adjustments. 2025: Platform team rotation: Metrics Collector Reliability. Refactored the metrics scraper for HA deployments: parallelized collection, added etcd leader election, and moved to server‑based metrics—reducing the worst‑case metrics gap from 7+ minutes → <30 s (often ~10 s) and unlocking actionable alerting on platform health. ### Software Engineer @ Stripe Jan 2020 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area 2020: Led billing design for a new tax-reporting product: defined metered 1099 e-file/mailed usage, built rate-card modeling (per-merchant pricing, FX rules), and added end-to-end usage auditability. Built IRS e-file and third-party mail integrations with rate-limit/backoff and delivery observability (queue depth, state transitions, per-platform health). 2021: Launched Observability ahead of peak: delivered 19 Jira items, 25 Splunk/SignalFx dashboards, ~10 detectors, ~5 runbooks; caught issues pre-customer and strengthened SLOs. Partnered with Security/Cloud/Dev Prod to harden CI/CD and OCI images; improved release gates and image policies. 2022: Owned reliability for Billing’s primary async system: migrated to Kubernetes, authored HADR, and load-tested for BFCM, yielding a zero-incident holiday. Cut noise and cost by retiring the noisiest detector, right-sizing workers, and moving storage to AWS EBS. Raised quality via snapshot testing and codified Ruby testing practices. 2023: Project lead for invoice modularity: replaced finalization computations with modular, collections-based primitives powering 100% of invoice amount calculations (millions/day); removed redundant discount logic to save ~10 ms/finalization. Prime contributor to Lock Decomposition: reduced lock contention/incidents, fixed lock-ordering issues affecting Quote accuracy, and published a rollout playbook with Trino/SignalFx/Splunk dashboards used across Quotes, Subscriptions, Schedules, and Invoices. Tightened architecture with package-dependency ratchets and gate-usage metrics (dashboards + PR signals); shipped safety dashboards; coached engineers via 1:1s/pairing to land safe, reversible rollouts. Ran a Test Clock gameday: orchestrated load/chaos, validated detectors, patched Temporal fault injection, and sustained ~50 RPS on critical paths pre-traffic. ### Teaching Assistant for Programming Courses (CSE 143, 341, 351, 333) @ Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Greater Seattle Area Aided students in debugging assignments that covered topics in topics such as Cache Geometries, C Data structures, C++ classes and inheritance, and other Systems Programming concepts. Created teaching materials on topics such as Functional, Object-Oriented, and Logic programing in Racket, Haskell, Ruby, and Prolog. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Databricks Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 Modularizing an existing Kubernetes service written in Scala with Envoy service mesh. Created a Prometheus dashboard for monitoring key operating metrics ### Research Assistant @ University of Washington Information School Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater Seattle Area Developed extensive web scraping infrastructure in Python to extract article-level meta-data of over 20,000 articles in over 20 potentially predatory journals. Created data visualizations in matplotlib and ggplot2, bash scripts for subsetting data, and pandas data analysis to analyze the topics of conversation in Twitter datasets of 10’s of 1000’s of tweets. Presented my work at the UW Undergraduate Research Symposium and departmental capstone events. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Stripe Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area Designed and implemented a Go service that interacts with Kubernetes to reliably submit Spark jobs to be run in a custom container. ### Software Development Intern @ Kernel Labs Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Seattle Area Wrote Python class for generating sentences based on Twitter data, utilizing Markov chains to emulate target sentence structure, with or without starting context. Wrote an Alexa skill utilizing DynamoDB for session storage and a NodeJS based AWS Lambda function, connected to Amazon API gateway for responding to HTTP requests. Back-end development on a Symfony-based system in the lobbying space, including schema modifications in MariaDB, business logic modifications in PHP, and deployment on AWS Ubuntu servers running NGINX. ### Research Assistant @ Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | University of Washington Assisted researchers in the Human-Computer Interactions Lab in developing an accessible web study to investigate listening speeds for screen reader users and non-screen reader users that was deployed as a MariaDB backed PHP application on the LabInTheWild platform. Improved existing front-end elements and data storage by conducting 4 user interviews, understanding common pain points, as well as analyzing and visualizing question response accuracy in R. Presented weekly progress reports to my faculty advisor, graduate student mentor, and the accessibility researchers via demos and oral accounts, discussing experimental design, functionality, and user experience. ### Event Coordinator @ Pixel Husky Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Greater Seattle Area Negotiated corporate sponsorships and managed communications with industry mentors from local Seattle companies for the first design competition at UW, the Pixel Project. ### Web Developer @ DefenseStorm Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Greater Seattle Area Contributed to the design and implementation of a Google Sheets backed React application for storing, searching, and filtering Cybersecurity statistics. Wrote SQL stored procedures for populating and querying an MS SQL Server database instance that used relational modeling to represent client-specified entities. Took on the role of project lead in a four-person team, organizing client and team meetings to discuss deliverables, feature changes, and usability. ### Information Systems Intern @ Big Fish Games Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Seattle Proposed improvements to an MS Sharepoint and MS SQL server backed Operations and Business Intelligence data management system, presenting to representatives in Operations, BI, and Management. Constructed SQL system-table queries to examine dependencies within the Business Intelligence teams’ database tables and stored procedures. Took on the role of project lead, managing project status, organizing meetings, and communicating with clients. ### Junior Systems Analysis Consultant @ Coalition Ending Gender-Based Violence Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Seattle, WA Elicited requirements for proposed Data Migration from outdated SalesForce enterprise edition to the current Non-Profit Starter Pack via Canvas discussion board. Constructed as-is/to-be use cases for both current and future staff members/systems. Contributed key elements of scope, assumptions, and economic feasibility for group Baseline Project Plan. Used resources (i.e. the PowerOfUS Hub and SalesForce Documentation) to propose opportunities for more effective use of the future SalesForce system (e.g. greater social media presence, app integrations, etc). Presented my team's recommendation to our client and answered questions during Q&A. ### Event Programming Intern @ Northwest Parkinson's Foundation Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Greater Seattle Area Received communications mentorship from the resident social worker, volunteered for the Walk for Parkinson’s, and updated contact information for a health care provider network of over 200 medical professionals and caregiving organizations. ## Education ### Master's degree in Computer Science University of Washington Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 ### Bachelor’s Degree in Informatics and Computer Science University of Washington Jan 2014 – Jan 2019 ### High School Hazen Senior High School Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/danielsnitkovskiy - Website: https://dan-js.dev --- Source: https://flows.cv/danielsnitkovskiy JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/danielsnitkovskiy/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22