Alex Goldobin Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, CA, US

San Mateo, California, US

Advising company on an application of the company unique technology (https://www.discolike.com/resources/architecture) to different industries: financial / fintech, security etc. Helped to establish business relationship with several industry leaders in financial and security areas.

• Streamlined and optimized mobile full-stack team scrum process. Supported full cycle of SAFe process from program increment (PI) planning to running daily stand up (DSU) meetings.
• Managed 4 Mobile Full Stack Engineering Teams of 8 engineers each: 3 iOS, 3 Android, and 2 API (backend) engineers ensuring full cross-platform collaboration and coordination, including 2 engineering managers as direct.
• Mobile teams delivered multiple personal and business banking features:o Bill Autopayo Transaction Categorizationso Add external accountso Transactions Disputeso and more.
• Pioneered remote feature toggle (feature flag) implementation for mobile applications using Adobe Target. Feature Toggle allows to release new feature in “dark mode” and gradually enable it to customers while.
• Built well-performed, reliable teams by hiring strong mobile and backend developers.
• Conducted regular 1:1 meetings with direct reports and bi-weekly skip level meetings.

I managed Digital Online Mobile Payments Engineering team in San Francisco. As a team we deliver multiple features to main Capital One mobile application on Android and iOS platforms.

• Helping stealth mode startup to design and develop software stack for hybrid mechanical / electronic smartwatch as advisor, software lead and software developer.
• Developed smartwatch prototype HTML/JS WEB application which covered all initial smartwatch features deployed on AWS.
• Ported JavaScript prototype application for Tizen platform and deployed it on Samsung Gear S3 smartwatch.
• Ported JavaScript prototype application for Raspberry PI platform.
• Performed full stack JavaScript development.
• Coordinated three remote engineers work.

• Managed Sling TV client applications software engineering group that develop client applications for live TV streaming service over the Internet used by millions of customers. Managed ~70 people organization located in.
• Responsible for delivering Sling TV client applications for Roku, iOS, tvOS (Apple TV), Android (Google and Amazon), Web Browsers (HTML/JS), Windows 10, Xbox, Comcast / Xfinity and Smart TVs.
• Lunched new Sling TV Clients: Chrome Browser, Comcast beta on Xfinity X1 platform.
• Coordinated work and co-development between teams in US and software development groups in Bangalore, India.
• Helped to establish and streamline software products development process by applying Git-Flow and supporting SAFe processes across all client applications development teams. Promoted improved release process across.
• Worked with product, business and marketing groups to ensure predictable product delivery to the customers (Sling TV) on each platform.

Oakland, California, US

• Responsible for company Car Services engineering group (software development and QA) delivering and maintaining SaaS, native desktop and mobile products.
• Responsible for development and support of multiple Car Services products for corporate customers, car operators and travel companies.
• Managed ~30 people engineering teams distributed across multiple time zones: North California, New Jersey and Bangalore/India.
• Established software development processes for optimal software development. Help to coordinate work of the product management, customer support, sales and engineering teams.
• Participated in small company acquisition which became core team in company Car Services Engineering group.
• Customers: Amex, Disney, Apple, Empire Limousine, Carey, Limo Anywhere, etc.

San Leandro, California, US

• Helped the stealth mode startup company build client application for consumer drone product (aka. flying camera).
• Re-structured client applications code into modular (component-based) architecture allowing several client applications prototyped based on the same core component (DroneSDK).
• Worked with PX4 / MAVLINK open platform C/C++ firmware for drones to analyze / understand MAVLINK protocol in details and implement MAVLINK protocol support on client application side.
• Hands-on development with iOS (Objective-C / Swift / C / XCode). Development for open-source PX4 / MAVLINK architecture. Utilized AVFramework, MapKit, and others iOS frameworks and MAVLINK C interface.

San Jose, California, US

• As VPE Managed company engineering team focusing on delivering social media mobile applications to the market.
• Organized server (backend) and mobile (iOS / Android) teams to achieve development of the scalable backend and user friendly social media client mobile applications.
• Expanded development team by hiring several iOS, Android, and backend engineers. Worked with external recruiting agencies, company HR, CEO and COO to achieve optimal teams staffing to support company products.
• Worked with product management, user experience/design teams to define products technical requirements for different mobile platforms.
• Worked with QA team to support applications testing process.
• Defined requirements and helped to organized multiple backend environments: development, QA, and production.

• Managed a team of 15+ developers. Coordinated with remote teams across US, India (Bangalore), and Ukraine (Kharkov), product management, user experience, business, and marketing teams to guarantee timely and successful.
• Managed multiple projects developed across iOS, Android, Linux, Roku, Chromecast, Xbox One, and Windows including:- SlingPlayer for iPad (4+ stars): Named as CES 2014 Innovations Design and Engineering Award Honoree..
• Worked with clients (Dish Network) and business partners such as Google, Microsoft, Vizio and Roku to spearhead development for their platforms.
• Architected Sling DIAL (Discovery and Launch), a proprietary, Air-Play-like technology that has been integrated into most of Dish’s retail products.
• Developed the core Objective-C / XCode components for iOS applications, SlingDIAL iPad sample application, Windows Store.NET components.

• Managed a team of 7 developers.
• Managed development of the Dish Remote Access (iOS), a remote video streamer for Dish Network and Blockbuster, and developed the core Objective C / XCode components that power its video streaming functionality.
• Managed development of the Slingbox application for Windows Phone 7/8 and Windows desktop. Implemented a custom Media Stream Source component for streaming video over HTTP for Silverlight.
• Oversaw and participated in the development of common APIs and UI components for Sling Media’s and Dish Network’s multiple iOS projects.

• Technical lead for the SlingPlayer video streaming client for Windows Desktop.
• Oversaw & coordinated development teams in the US (3 developers), India (7 developers), and Russia (20 developers).[TECHNOLOGIES] Visual Studio 2010/2012, Silverlight, C#, C++, MFC,.NET, XCode 4, Objective-C, Eclipse

US

• Developed the IDVault personal online security application for the GuardID SmartCard device.
• Developed Trusted Network Validator, an online banking web site sign-on validation tool.
• [TECHNOLOGIES] VS.NET,.NET 3.0, C#, Windows Workflow, Windows Presentation Foundation, MS SQL, Windows Win32 Security API, Win32 P-Invoke, Windows XP / Vista, Windows Vista UAC, SmartCard

San Mateo, California, US

• Windows development lead for the Tool and Technology Web Group and Audio Tools Group.
• Developed a Microsoft Office Project 2003 Plugin for SourceForge and Jira web applications. This include optimizing and refactoring the existing Team Manger ASP application, porting it over to ASP.NET 2.0, developing.
• Developed a prototype client application and Maya Plug-in for the internal game Shared Assets Manager using ZeroC’s ICE API.
• Designed and developed, from concepts to fully functional applications, MODO (a synthesizer-like audio tool for creating complex audio effects PS2, PSP, and PS3 games) and SALT (an audio localization tool for game.

US

• Provided technical leadership for Moody’s DealAnalyzer product development, fixing bugs which saved the company $1.2 million in contracts. Re-architected the DealAnalyzer Windows NT Service DCOM Server to make it more.
• Implemented a company unit testing environment for the DealAnalyzer API which significantly reduced QA and development hours.
• Served as a technical advisor for many projects and wrote guidelines and documentation to organize the company development process.[TECHNOLOGIES] C++, C#, VC.NET / VC6.0, COM, ATL, ADO, XML, FORTRAN, NUNIT 2.0.

US

• Designed and developed core components and APIs for DigitalDeck Janja 1.0, a distributed TV application, including redesigning the application architecture to support a single server streaming video to multiple clients.
• Created APIs for storing and retrieving application specific information in XML.
• Developed multiple test applications in C++ and C# to verify the application network communication protocol.
• Implemented an algorithm and communication protocol for exchanging information between application components for skipping commercials in TV shows.
• Wrote guidelines to improve the company development and QA processes.[TECHNOLOGIES] C++, C#, VC.NET / VC6.0, COM, ATL, XML, DirectShow (VMR), DirectDraw, Win32 Sockets, Windows XP

• Designed and developed core components of the Kenza Platform, which allowed streaming television in Windows XP, including XML based communication mechanisms and DirectShow filters for transforming wave form audio into.
• Developed TV, DVD, Web Browser, and Autoplay components for the NetTV top box.
• Served as a technical contact between Lumenati and Microsoft for all Windows XP related issues.[TECHNOLOGIES] C++, MS VC6.0, COM, ATL, XML, SOAP Toolkit 2, DirectShow (VMR), DirectDraw, Direct3D, Windows XP

• Developed the Firetalk VOIP and instant messaging client including its plug-in architecture.
• Designed and implemented major components for the Firetalk Platform, adding support for Session Initiation Protocol, and redesigning the voice server ActiveX component.
• Lead the development of FireVoyant phone conferencing client, a Microsoft Outlook Add-in for FireVoyant, and ported the Firetalk Platform to Linux.[TECHNOLOGIES] C++, MC VC6.0, ActiveX, KDE, Qt, Java, JBuilder4, Visual.

Ostend, Flemish Region, BE

• Developed the Scenarist Enhanced DVD Development Kit and optimized its DVD playback emulation functionality.
• Developed Macromedia Director Xtra which allowed playing DVD Video from Macromedia Director and Shockwave movies.[TECHNOLOGIES] C++/Win32, COM, ASP, JavaScript, Lingo, Direct3D, DirectDraw, DirectSound

Amstelveen, NL

• Developed LEGO Island, a best-selling PC game
• Built authoring and playback tools for a wide range of media
• Designed and implemented video and audio playback, 3D model presentation, 3D and sprite animation[TECHNOLOGIES] C++, DirectDraw, DirectSound, Direct3D, ActiveMovie, Windows 95

• Developed AVI and BMP file processing and color space conversion (YUV to RGB), PCMCIA Card Services client driver, and automatic video card recognition for notebook computers under Windows 3.1 for NogaVision 256 PCMCIA.
• Developed CaptureVisions a video capture application.[TECHNOLOGIES] C++, DirectDraw, DirectSound, Windows 3.1, MS DOS

Israel, -, IL

• Developed Odyssey – Adventures in Science, a multimedia educational software for Windows 3.1
• Implemented C++ classes for PCX, BMP, FLC, AVI and WAV file processing.[TECHNOLOGIES] C++, Borland C++, OWL, MS VC++, MFC, Windows 3.1, MS DOS