Iuliia Filimonova Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Developing a secure app to create, manage, and protect private files on macOS.

• Empowering and mentoring beginners in iOS Development through one-on-one and group sessions, fostering their growth and confidence in the field.• Successfully guided several of my students to secure internship positions, contributing to their early career achievements in iOS Development.• Created a video course on Git designed for beginners, addressing potential challenges programmers might face. The course breaks down fundamental concepts like version control, branching, and collaboration with GitHub. To make learning more visual and engaging, I utilized various tools and techniques, ensuring learners can quickly grasp the material and apply it to their projects with ease.

Almaty, Kazakhstan

• Developed and implemented features for Kolesa.kz, a classified app, enhancing the buying, selling, and servicing of vehicles. Collaborated with key project teams to deliver scalable solutions aligned with business goals.• Implemented a new searching filter flow based on a server-driven UI approach, which enhanced the app's flexibility by allowing real-time updates without requiring app releases. This not only resulted in a faster, more personalized user experience but also optimized the development process by minimizing the need for frequent code changes and app deployments, enabling the team to focus on higher-value tasks.• Optimized company development and testing workflows by enhancing internal tools via SwiftUI.• Reduced the app load on CPU by 15% through refactoring, cutting Objective-C code by 5%, which also helped resolve several legacy bugs and memory leaks.• Modernized the company's custom iOS framework based on Apple Push Notifications and integrated a reminder feature prompting users to enable notifications, which boosted opt-in rates and re-engagement.• Expanded in-app service purchase functionality, leading to a measurable increase in in-app revenue.

Astana, Kazakhstan

• Developed from scratch an e-commerce application with chat supporting photo/video sharing, user news feed, and personalized statistics. Based on UIKit, SwiftUI, MVP and MVVM architecture.• Implemented chat functionality without third-party libraries to reduce reliance on external code. • Halved the time for adding new network requests by proactive refactoring the network layer with Combine.• Integrated custom components like a photo picker and range slider, collaborating closely with product managers and designers to ensure a seamless, responsive user experience.

• Contributed to the development of the geodesy measurements apps: viZone, viDoc, enhancing user experience and overall functionality with scalable solutions.• Implemented advanced functionalities for a phone's customized camera with a focus on augmented reality features, using ARKit for precise object placement in real-world environments. This included accurate spatial alignment of objects and positioning on a map (Google Maps, Apple Maps) their locations for further interactions.• Developed and integrated a user settings module using MVP+C architecture. This approach enhanced code maintainability, making future updates and enhancements more efficient.• Optimized client-server interactions by integrating Core Data to reduce server requests, which assisted the backend team in revamping data handling processes.• Revamped the app’s UI by replacing storyboards with programmatic UI, using MVC and MVVM, enhancing flexibility, maintainability, and scalability.

• Built an internship project focused on interface navigation and user experience within a social network application.• Implemented essential screens such as login with verification, main user page, detail user post screen, and photo library screen using MVC architecture, creational and structural design patterns.• Received positive feedback for effectively balancing technical solutions with user experience and for my collaborative work with team members.

Master'S Degree, Cultural Studies/Critical Theory And Analysis, 4.9

Professional Certificate, Computer Software Engineering

Professional retraining program in Computer Science