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Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Santa Monica, Ca, Us

Developing consumer products uniquely enabled by AI

Venice Beach, Ca, Us

A Music Data Analytics Company dedicated to enriching human experience by redefining music as connection not content.

Santa Monica, California, Us

Worked with Product Designers, Product Managers, User Researchers, and Engineering Managers to define product strategy and annual roadmaps. Led and mentored a team of 3 design engineers to develop designs and prototypes for Camera, Creative Tools, and Memories parts of Snap app. Highlights:- Designed and prototyped new types of Snaps- Lead Lens Explorer and Lens Carousel improvements (designs, prototypes, specs, engineering hand-off)- Explored, prototyped, and launched new Creative Tools (used ~1.7B times a day): Voice Over (300k DUU), Auto-Caption (300k DAU), Text-to-Speech, Crop Tool, Stickers Tool Redesign, Universal Search- Designed and launched Preview Filter Carousel (64M DUU): ↑38% (iOS), ↑10% (Android) Filters impressions, ↑9% (iOS), ↑5.4% (Android) Snaps sent with Filters- Designed Green Screen feature in Director Mode - Redesigned and prototyped new Custom Sticker Tool - Explored new ways to browse the Music Tool- Designed and developed 3D Bitmoji based Farm Game- Designed Snap Scan in post capture (contextual suggestions, shoppable stickers, auto-custom stickers)Tools used: Figma, Protopie, Origami, Objective-C, Swift, SwiftUI, Buck, ScopeGraph, Node.js, Python, Firebase.

Over 4 years I have built, and lead development of more than 20 iOS and web applications. They were social networks, audiobook player, video editing, utilities, and games.- The most popular had 250k+ monthly users- The most profitable had $20k+ revenue/month- The final product was Spotlight app, acquired by Snap and launched as a core feature in Snapchat.Tools used: Swift, Objective-C, C++, Node.js, Firebase, AWS, and many social and camera SDKs, Sketch, Figma, InVision.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Lead development of applications for Wealth Management clients: - 25k DAU users with $463 billion AUM- High security standards- High level of product quality and crash-free rateI worked alongside executives of RBC, City National Bank, and IBM to assess and successfully transfer development of a City National Bank application to be in-house.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

I lead the development of iOS(iPad) and MacOS(in-store TVs) endless aisle applications for RONA hardware stores. Digital boards display product information (such as inventory levels, pricing and delivery statuses) to help those retailers manage the impact of downsizing with smaller footprint locations that can’t always fit their full inventory selection. I quickly learned and successfully implemented macOS framework in this project, while guiding iOS developers to accomplish iOS analog of this app for iPads.

I am a Co-Founder of the Eventlime. Eventlime is a company which is aimed to fill in gaps in online services and mobile platforms. Currently we have created two iOS applications: Eventlime and MojiLook and we keep growing our assets everyday.Eventlime is a social platform to search for events in the locations of interests and nearby. We are aimed to become a unified place for everyone to search for the events, catch ups and parties. Our key difference is that we provide feed for events right in the app. All you memories are saved forever and shared with your friends in one place with a stunning design and great stability.It is currently undergoing rebranding on the appstore from previous version. Will be back shortly.MojiLook is an iMessage App which lets you to create stylish looks and use them as stickers. There are around 200 elements: faces, garments, accessories and text bubbles. User can combine them or use each one separately as stickers. We have an algorithm which prioritizes how often bubbles with text are used, so user has most used ones on top of the list. We've also prepared a St. Valentine's update with great illustrations. Link on AppStore:https://appsto.re/ca/4Burhb.iI am responsible for iOS app development with Swift, legal issues, product marketing, developing company culture.

St. Catharines, Ontario, Ca

I was assessing students' assignments, projects and tests, as well as tutoring seminars and doing lab demonstrations with the students.

I was in charge of iOS products of this company which were focused on Insurance and Banking areas. We had 8 applications for Ukrainian and Russian Insurance companies. My biggest challenges were security and accessibility of the data. In this company I also started to take part in Android development.

I was developing an iOS app for London based Start-up Company. The main aim of the app was making it possible for people to find clothes in the real time in the real stores, as well as interactive gamefication of the app such as wearing the mannequin in the clothes and making a virtual board where you can add, zoom and move the clothes to make a virtual style. Also sharing these items to social networks.

Post-Graduate Certificate, Financial Analysis & Investment Management

Post-Graduate Certificate, Financial Trading & Option Strategies

Master'S Of Computer Science, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computational And Applied Mathematics