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Kitchener, ON, CA

Ontario, Canada

- Reduced the added text input latency by 90% in the third-party editors when the Grammarly extension is active by using performance optimization techniques and designing a new UX, which decreased the disable rate by 9%;- Established the performance testing framework used for guarding against regressions in added text input latency, memory usage, and CPU.

Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

- Played a key role in development and led the integration of Generative AI assistant into the Web Editor editor codebase;- Led the migration of a large CI/CD setup (100+ jobs) to the new type of runners, allowing to save est. 30-40% of costs related to CI/CD on the project;- Reduced by 60% the monthly costs of logging infrastructure by analyzing the.

Rivne Region, Ukraine

- Led a team of 4-6 engineers during the R&D and implementation of a web-based product for recording and editing meteorological media content till the successful release of the MVP;- Led a team of 2-4 engineers during the development and maintenance of a web-based product for automated rendering and distribution of meteorological media content;- Led the.

Rivne, Ukraine

- Mentored five groups of up to ten students while they were working on their group projects by consulting them on the software development process, architecture, code quality, testing, etc.- Performed the technical evaluation of 200+ candidates and provided the IT Academy with detailed feedback on each of them;- Achieved ~90% hiring rate of the students.

Rivne Region, Ukraine

- Led the development of a new product that allowed customers to modify the weather API payload for provided regions based on their API keys;- Drove the development process improvements, including the introduction of automated testing and using static typing;- Was responsible for the development and maintenance of a set of client-facing weather products.

Rivne Region, Ukraine

- In collaboration with game designers, 3D artists, and sound designers, led the development of an MVP of a mobile VR escape room game;- Prototyped and tested game mechanics and user controls to achieve optimal VR experience;

Rivne Region, Ukraine

- Led the development of an admin tools portal for an online browser game;- Developed and maintained the game mechanics and the GUI of the browser game;- Performed the modernization of the stack to AngularJS, enabling the team to build more interactivecontrols in the admin tools;- Implemented tooling for localization of the game content to multiple.

Rivne Region, Ukraine

- Optimized the performance of click detection and removed a noticeable lag when clicking on alarge map;- Improved the unite tests coverage of a set of critical modules;

Master'S Degree, Computer Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Applied Mathematics