# Vassili Skarine > Experienced in guiding engineering teams from ideation to launch. Let's connect if you're facing challenges shipping new products or features. Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/vassili Team player with exceptional work ethic that goes above and beyond to deliver results. Equally capable of being individual contributor, manager, and leader. Love coding and building products. ## Work Experience ### Engineer @ Snowflake Jan 2025 – Present | New York, United States Snowflake Data (Cyberyn's public domain business) ### Head of Engineering (acquired by Snowflake) @ Cybersyn Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | New York, United States ### Startup Consultant @ Unknown Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 Highlight project: joined Americana Technologies as interim Director of Engineering. Manufactured chip that had public and private key associated with it that you can attach to a physical object and verify authenticity on the blockchain. We built out end-to-end demo of the marketplace with physical objects and a chip. Help early stage companies with various technical challenges from building prototype to helping with architecture and scaling to hiring engineering team. Occasionally perform technical due diligence and provide report to VC fund prior to them investing into the company. ### Engineer @ Meta Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Los Angeles, California, United States Oculus feeds team ### Startup Consultant @ Unknown Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Los Angeles, California, United States Highlight project: joined Pinatafarms as most senior engineer and built out scalable serverless backend for social media app as well as robust server to run computer vision jobs. Help early stage companies with various technical challenges from building prototype to helping with architecture and scaling to hiring engineering team. Occasionally perform technical due diligence and provide report to VC fund prior to them investing into the company. ### Engineer @ Snap Inc. Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Santa Monica, California, United States Worked on the geofilters team. Worked on full stack features that touched all aspects of geofilter lifecycle from creation (front end | Javascript) to storing / transcoding (C | Go) / scheduling / targeting / serving (backend | Java) to displaying (iOS | Android). ### Engineer / Co-Founder (acquired by LongGame) @ Liveli Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco, California, United States As the only engineer on the team, responsible for everything to do with technology side of the company. Main tech stack was MeteorJS. Some things I worked on: - full-featured system to do hiring for restaurant industry with features such as: applicant tracking system, job board, recurring payments, interview scheduling, sms/email reminders, administrative UI to manage hierarchies of hiring mangers, API integration into popular job boards, SEO, etc - job search chat bot and number of other chat bots for various platforms - analytics platform for chat bots with sentiment analysis and interactive UI to explore data - prototyped a lot of ideas ### Engineer / Team Lead (acquired by Google) @ Firebase Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco, California, United States Jumped on what was needed the most but generally worked on adding various features to real-time database and prototyping next-generation back-end. Promoted to lead the core database team. ### Engineer / Team Lead / VP Engineering @ Addepar Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 | Mountain View, California, United States 2013-14 as VP Eng: In charge of back-end team that overlooked quality assurance, data processing, portfolio analytics and platform scalability. 2012-13 as Team Lead: Data problems were bottleneck for growing business. I was given a team of engineers and told to fix the problems. We delivered. 2011 as Engineer: Early engineer that worked on all parts of the application stack. ### Engineer @ Qualcomm Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 | San Diego, California, United States - Worked on embedded system for smartphone modem - 3 awards for outstanding work within 18 months ### Engineer / Co-Founder @ Unsynced (now www.kik.com) Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 | Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Built and released full-featured music player for BlackBerry and managed development of cross-platform desktop music player. ## Education ### Honors Bachelor of Applied Science in Computer Engineering Co-Op University of Waterloo ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vassili-skarine --- Source: https://flows.cv/vassili JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/vassili/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05