Jun 2023 – Present · 3 yrs · Remote

• Physical Transformation is one of the largest weight loss and nutrition project in Russia with over tens of thousands participants.
• As an IT consultant:
• Wrote detailed specifications for complex food tracker screens related to adding a new food entry and its automatic categorizations.
• Decribed detailed flows for implementing an AI system to break down a complex food item into components using only its name.
• Engineered a prompt for an LLM (Anthropic API, Claude) to mass rename 150,000+ of food items and give them a uniform name, saving the company $1,500.
• Engineered a prompt for an LLM (Anthropic API, Claude) to categorize 45,000 of food items by their names, assigning one of 1,500 categories, saving the company $10,000.
• Automated the notification about new comments from participants reducing routine work for 200+ nutrition counselors using C#, Go, Telegram API, AWS Lambda, AWS EventBridge.

Apr 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 2 mos · Remote

• Physical Transformation is one of the largest weight loss and nutrition project in Russia with over tens of thousands participants.
• My job is to provide the project and its participants with information and give critical insights on all matters.
• During the work there I:
• Mentored 20 people in a weight loss program with results up to 31 kg of lost weight per person.
• Participated in creating of 10+ articles, helped to proofread 30+ articles related to fitness, wellness and nutrition.
• Gave a critical review to information the project provided. Gave insights about the overall project performance.
• Organized the structured Q&A section of more than 500 entries to be used by nutrition counselors.

Mar 2018 – Feb 2024 · 5 yrs 11 mos · Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation · Remote

• Qoden is a product based company that develops white label exchanges. The product allows to quickly setup a customized exchange located in the cloud.
• Architected a reliable and efficient payments processing service for fiat and cryptocurrency.
• Designed and implemented a modular system for seamless payment system processor plug in reducing integration time from one month to one week.
• Bolstered security by designing an architecture for in-cloud transaction signing using AWS Lambda, AWS Parameter Store and AWS API Gateway, preventing the team from accessing private data at any stage of the development.
• Conducted over 40 job interviews for an intern position, assessing over 200 candidates and verifying over 600 solutions to test tasks.
• Conducted two courses for interns with no prior experience in C# ASP.NET development.
• Mentored six interns by providing constructive feedback, in-depth code reviews and guiding them towards the junior developer role.
• Developed a customizable mobile app for the exchange using Xamarin (iOS, Android).

Nov 2011 – Mar 2018 · 6 yrs 4 mos · Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation · Hybrid

• Studio Mobile was an outsourcing company that developed mobile apps and backends for them and games.
• Designed and implemented a version control system for the patient care report forms in the mobile app, reducing traffic between the app and the API and protected the data from corruption.
• Developed a high-performance charting component for a stock market app that allowed drawing candles and various instruments while at the same time providing smooth scrolling.
• Prototyped several mobile applications.
• Led a team of six developers and directly interacted with clients to develop features and fix bugs.
• Conducted over 90 job interviews for an intern position, assessing more than 100 candidates and verifying over 300 solutions to test tasks.
• Conducted three courses for nine interns with no prior experience in iOS application development.
• Mentored nine interns by providing constructive feedback, in-depth code reviews and guiding them towards the junior developer role.

Sep 2010 – Nov 2011 · 1 yr 2 mos · Saint Petersburg, St Petersburg City, Russia · Remote

• Developed and supported a site for a Russian state-wide math contest.