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San Francisco, California, US

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

Strategic focus: I led an engineering unit with highly fragmented scope. I brought in a strategy and transparency of deliverables, finalized and sunsetted low-impact solutions, optimized the team and overly formal processes, keeping high internal customer satisfaction. I involved engineers and team squads into ownership, self-optimization, and rotating.

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

Leading both EM and PM roles for Mobile Search SDKs, Offline search, and Address search core backend, I grew Search SDK into a separate product by introducing completely new customer-centric API and bringing strategic customers onboard. SDK adoption increased +36%, SDK traffic — 2,5x YoY, bringing in over 1M MAU in 9 months after the release. I handled.

Warsaw, PL

Teaching a live, language-agnostic course “From Middle to Senior” on what it takes and how to become a Senior Engineer. I put extensive focus on developing soft skills, as well as going through all the widely known programming patterns and their application.

Singapore, SG

Leading and implementing mobile and web strategy of a fintech group of companies (messenger, professional social network, online bank, payments, and telecom) and successful timely commercial product launch on iOS, Android and web with 1M MAU within a year. I integrated external development teams, increasing in-house mobile team output x3 times and.

Singapore, SG

Heading the local office in Minsk, Belarus, by combining roles of the Head of Engineering and Administrative Manager, with the goals of optimization, RIF, regrowing the team and succession planning for the administrative role — all completed under an ambitiously tight timeframe.Achievements:- Creation and adaptation of the new candidate-friendly and.

Singapore, SG

I joined the team for a social network product yet without an app in the App Store. While adding new features, I designed a transitional ADR and implemented it. This included rewriting internal XMPP chat, adapting future-proof iOS auto-layout, new notifications system, configuring CI, and scaling the team to 3 iOS Engineers. I ran most tech domain.

Minsk, BY

Tech & marketing generalist at a startup for GIS data of Eastern Europe.- Marketing strategy for B2B GIS-data production sector, speaking at conferences, website development and - support, negotiations, lead management, license drafting.- Leading teams of up to 4 people per project- Engineering and analysis of statistical databases, geo-information modeling.

Минск, Минск, BY

A company specializing in rapid iOS casual game and app development with high organic retention and MAUs. I was solely responsible for a few iOS projects developed from the idea to the App Store (both Objective-C and Swift).- Swift 3, Objective-C coding, code migration, documented code review, refactoring, server API integration with JSON, file system.

Tallinn, Harjumaa, EE

Complete iOS app development cycle from concept, design, coding and testing to marketing and monetization, including a personal finance app, a time tracker app, and an iOS / tvOS arcade game.Worthy – Transparent Personal Finance:Concept — formal requirements for MVP, weekly Agile reviews and progressionsPrototyping — mockups, animations, on-device.

Formed and operated a financial leasing company. Business management, fundraising, risk assessment of investment projects, market analysis, financial accounting, taxation.

Financial leasing

Digital editing, print production, camera service

International Business

Harvard University (Harvardx) Online Program, Computer Science

Education record

Diploma, International Economic Relations