Building autonomous drones

Make lidar sensors and it's SDK easy to use, extend and develop with other sensors integration, data processing, slam/mapping and visualizations tasks.- Designed and developed file format to store, compress and stream lidar data (C++/Flatbuffers with Python bindings and WASM/Emscripten, multi OS (Win/Mac/Linux), multi Python 3.7-3.11)- Developed Single/Multi sensor 3d visualizations (OpenGL C++ with Python bindings, same multi OS and multi Python support as above) (with extensive Web/WebGL components)- Improved and supported Lidar based odometry and mapping system

Building maps from LIDAR data and make them visible and accessible through web interface from the cloud.- lidar data streaming from the cloud- efficient storage and retrieval using native/scalable services- developed custom file format with indexing and compression for lidar data

Served on different roles – software engineer, project manager, product director and CEO from 2005 till 2016

Technical exploration of IoT, wearables and embedded devices that later become a new business direction for the company.- Launched Embedded Android services- Chatbots development services (FB Messenger bots for Golden State Warriors and Sunglashut)- Wearables & IoT services (Pebble apps, Particle platform, Bluetooth connected apps)

After gaining visibility on Ukrainian and Russian markets, we started focusing on the US market with the establishment of an office in San Francisco.Focusing purely on US customers demanded changes in the way we do our work. Efficiency, quality, team roles and personal responsibilities within a team--all this was improved and adapted for the US market. Besides that, there was an all new marketing strategy, establishing and strengthening connections with the current customers and looking for a new opportunities.Achievements for that period:- Established Stanfy US presence and operations- Reorganized project management approach. Smaller teams are now responsible for all client communications and deliveries- Hourly rate grew 115%. From 35 USD/h in 2012 to 75 USD/h at the beginning of 2014- Increased revenue per employee by a factor of two- Launched San Francisco Mobile Entrepreneurs meetup. (hosted in Pivotal Labs office)In 2014 I moved to product development with SimpleFinance Mobile App project - expense tracker. Andrew Garkaviy was appointed as a new CEO of Stanfy and I moved to Board Member role.

In 2009 we've made a major shift at Stanfy to shift our focus from Web/RIA app development to iPhone/Android mobile applications development. Started from apps development for Ukrainian market, we became the first choice for the best quality mobile apps development in Ukraine and have worked with major TV Channels, Media and Publishing Companies, Mobile Carriers and CEE startups.In 2012 Stanfy had 40 employees and provided a full cycle of mobile apps development. We've done user needs analysis, design with a focus on business goals, collaborative UI/UX design, engineering and QA. In 2010-2011 Stanfy was in Top #3 companies in Russia rating for mobile apps development. (Apps4All rating) and #1 in Ukraine.Major achievements:- Stanfy established leadership in mobile apps development markets in Ukraine and Russia- Top Ukraine companies want to build mobile apps with Stanfy.- Revenue y/y growth doubled in 2012- Gave talks at more than 20 conferences in Ukraine, Russia, Lithuania (MediaBarcamp), Netherlands (TheNextWeb) about mobile apps.- Organized iPhoneDevCamp conference in Ukraine in 2010, Sapka Challenge in 2009 and co-organized iAppContest.- Build Finance, HR & Marketing Departments

iAppContest (November 2009 - May 2010)iAppContest is a competition for mobile developers in Eastern Europe. iAppContest attracted the best developers in the area and aimed to bridge Eastern Europe and Silicon Valley.iPhoneDevCamp Kyiv (July 2009 - November 2009)iPhoneDevCamp - first iPhone developers conference in Eastern Europe which was held on July 18, 2009, in Kyiv, Ukraine. Organizers are Stanfy (http://stanfy.com.ua) and Ciklum.It gathered around 320 participants from Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Latvia, Moldova, USA, and Germany. It featured 3 parallel sessions, 15 presentations, discussions and expert panels. Main topics were mobile apps development, business development & customer acquisition, and mobile apps marketing.Stanfy also built iPhone developers community in Ukraine by organizing regular meetings in Kyiv (50-70 active members) – iPhoneDevCamp Kyiv (http://iphonedevcamp.com.ua). The goal was to support and unite developers in Ukraine and create the place for ideas and knowledge sharing.Sapka Contest (February 2009 - April 2009)Sapka is an international programming contest in ICFP Contest style. More than 100 professionals and enthusiasts worked on interesting task with quest elements during 7 days contest. As a result, the teams produced intelligent AI's for autonomous bots that competed in a game resembling Bomberman. Later, during CodeCamp 2009 in Kyiv participants gathered on Sapka Panel and shared their experience.

Stanfy, a software development company, was started as a team of engineers in a computer science lab in NTUU “Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” (KPI) in 2005. I was one of the three co-founders who decided to create our own venture instead of becoming simply an employee. In 2007 all Stanfy founders were KPI master graduates with honors. This year we all moved to a separate office, Stanfy’s first office and we grew to fifteen people during 2007-2009. All our customers were from the US and Ukraine.Some of the projects that we did:- Social Network for restaurant owners and customers with Facebook/Twitter integration, Flash apps and Javascript RIA interface which was pretty new in 2006. (US customer)- File Storage service as a competitor of the former Box.com with a rich interactive interface (US customer)- Face Recognition site that finds a match of your photo with celebrity photos. (US)- Internal customer management system for Ukrainian mobile carrier (Top #3) and factoring system for one of the Ukrainian bank (Top #3 in factoring operations)- WebBrush - interactive collaborative board for designers (Ajax based single page web-app)My personal responsibilities were:- Software Developer/Engineer - build management, continuous integration, CVS, Java (Tomcat, Struts, Spring, JDBC), Mysql/PostgreSQL/Oracle/HSQLDB, HTML/CSS, Advanced Javascript for rich web applications (Prototype.js and our custom JS frameworks)- Project Management - customer requirements and communications, team management, control quality, project planning, workflow planning and delivery managementAchievements:- Strong engineering-based culture- 15 engineers and strong Agile practice in software development- Adopted Continuous Integration systems from day one (CruiseControl and later Jenkins)

Building AR framework for the construction industry with Intellectsoft. Check out our AR Lab https://ar.intellectsoft.net/- Researched AR/VR technology stack- Launched HoloLens Demo - Kado MEP Layout

A mobile app for expense tracking, Simple Finance app helps other people to stay within their budget and save money. It is a partnership project with iHomeMoney.com that combines my expertise in mobile apps development and the expertise of iHomeMoney.com in personal finance management.- Top #10 in Finance category (Eastern European App Store) (2014)