Marianna Budnikova

IOS Engineer

Portland, Oregon, United States18 yrs 3 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Achieved significant CI build speed improvements.
  • Reduced Android app size, enhancing user experience.
  • Led development of HelloSign Android app from scratch.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS software engineer with strong expertise in Android development and mobile performance.

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Skills

Core Skills

Android DevelopmentSoftware EngineeringMobile PerformanceMachine LearningSoftware DevelopmentTeachingApi DevelopmentGenetic AlgorithmsC Programming

Other Skills

CI/CDNetworkingUI frameworksAgile MethodologiesAnalyticsiOS DevelopmentUI DesignData ScienceEvent PlanningUser OnboardingPythonPublic SpeakingResearchLeadership DevelopmentLeadership

Experience

18 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 1 mo
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Cash app

Lead Staff Android Software Engineer (L7)

Sep 2024Feb 2026 · 1 yr 5 mos · Portland, Oregon, United States · Remote

  • Promoted from L6 to L7 (Staff) within 7 months of joining as the first dedicated Android Developer Experience lead at Cash App.
  • Drove a 2x improvement in CI build speed (40+ min to sub-19 min) and reduced local build times by 25%, saving roughly 4,000 developer hours per year.
  • Reduced Android app size by 10% (51MB to 45.7MB) through asset optimization, improving performance for millions of users.
  • Owned technical strategy for core Android platform systems: testing infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, networking, navigation, UI frameworks, and release tooling across the Cash client engineering org.
  • Established release tagging and master-branch health alerting adopted by iOS, Android, and QA teams, cutting time-to-detect broken builds org-wide.
  • Led cross-platform implementation of the Echo networking plugin, enabling network request debugging across all Cash and Block Android apps.
  • Co-authored an AI development manifesto with staff engineers defining safe practices and principles for shipping AI-assisted features responsibly.
  • Trained 4 SDETs to transition into senior platform engineering roles; mentored an engineer to L7 and supported multiple L5/L6 promotion packets.
  • Founded Cash App's first Mobile Developer Productivity Day, bringing together 60+ iOS and Android engineers; sessions were added to org-wide onboarding materials.
Android DevelopmentSoftware EngineeringCI/CDNetworkingUI frameworksAgile Methodologies

Dropbox

Senior Software Engineer, Tech Lead

Aug 2018Aug 2024 · 6 yrs · Remote

  • Lead Mobile Performance strategy for mobile apps at Dropbox
  • Lead Product Health Scorecard initiative across Dropbox
  • Lead development of HelloSign Android app from 0 lines of code to Google Play Store.
  • Implemented and executed analytics strategy for Android and iOS Dropbox applications
  • Educated the team on how to measure performance of Android features, shipped a library to measure feature performance and improved Android app startup time by 30%.
  • Drove foundational and user facing improvements for the Dropbox Mobile Applications.
  • Helped ship Dark Mode for Dropbox Android app.
  • Shipped a reusable UI component library to help Android app be consistent with other Dropbox surfaces.
  • Helped make Dropbox Android application A and AA accessible.
  • Worked with Dropbox Desktop Tray team developing new experiences across Windows, Mac and Linux.
  • Shipped several New Dropbox features for desktop Tray and Dropbox desktop application
  • Use Hive to help product analysts measure the effect of product changes
Mobile PerformanceAnalyticsAndroid DevelopmentiOS DevelopmentUI DesignSoftware Engineering

Microsoft

2 roles

Software Engineer II on HoloLens (ANALOG) team

Promoted

Nov 2016Jun 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Used machine learning and data science to help HoloLens and Microsoft Mixed Reality team discover deep insights about their products.
Machine LearningData Science

Software Engineer

Feb 2016Nov 2016 · 9 mos

  • Built Enterprise Analytics for engineers world-wide via the Visual Studio Team Services platform at Tools for Software Engineers team at Microsoft .
Software DevelopmentAnalytics

Wistem board of directors

Vice President

Aug 2015Oct 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos · Boise, ID

  • I was on Board of Directors for a non-profit to support STEM education for girls in Idaho.
  • http://www.wistemgroup.org/

Metageek

2 roles

Professional Hacker

Promoted

Oct 2014Jan 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos · Boise, Idaho Area

  • Implemented an automatic update when a feature is added to a user’s license to replace manual re-registration process and make it easier to purchase new features.
  • Implemented a customer feedback system.
  • Added user onboarding feature to allow users to learn how to use inSSIDer Office.
  • Designed and implemented an API to collect application usage metrics in C#.
  • Automated continuous Extract Transform Load for sales and purchase information from Order Desk and 3dcart to local purchase information warehouse to be able to generate quickbooks and sales reports on internal web page.
  • Introduced unit testing and legacy code refactoring skills that led to unit test coverage increase from 5.5 % to 21.7 % in Chanalyzer (33,000 LOC) and 16.8 % to 40.6 % in inSSIDer Office (10,000 LOC).
Event PlanningTeaching

Apprentice Hacker

Aug 2014Oct 2014 · 2 mos · Boise, Idaho Area

API DevelopmentUser Onboarding

Girl develop it! boise

Co-Founder, President

Apr 2014Aug 2016 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Boise, Idaho Area

  • Girl Develop It Boise is a chapter of a national non-profit to provide affordable technology classes to women. I planned, organized and taught at Girl Develop It Boise events, such as classes and Code & Coffee networking events.

Ge healthcare

EEDP EID Software Engineering Intern

Jun 2013Aug 2013 · 2 mos · 9900 W Innovation Dr, Wauwatosa, WI 53226

  • Developed a web-based diagnosis editor for Universal Viewer using JavaScript and JQuery.
  • Automated the migration of tests from Rational Quality Management framework to IBM Rational DOORS using Sikuli.

Boise state university

5 roles

Researcher in the lab of Dr. Tim Andersen

Nov 2011Oct 2014 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Boise, Idaho Area

  • Assist with NSF project to model Planaria worm regeneration using a genetic algorithm.
  • Implemented and now maintain genetic algorithm crossover in Python for Planaria reproduction simulation.
  • Designed and implemented a programming solution in Python that converts cell based representation of Planaria worms used by simulation platform into graph-based representation.
  • Prepare technical reports to be used in journal publications.

Researcher in the lab of Dr. Inanc Senocak

Promoted

Feb 2011Nov 2011 · 9 mos · Boise, Idaho Area

  • Assisted with research on simulation of air flow over complex terrain.
  • Designed and implemented a C program that calculates distance fields for 3D objects.
  • Presented the results of my program at NASA Day at Boise State.
  • Prepared technical reports for use by other team members.
Genetic AlgorithmsPython

Math Tutor

Promoted

Jan 2011Apr 2011 · 3 mos · Boise, Idaho Area

  • Tutored Boise State students and taught them techniques to solve a variety of math problems. The students were enrolled in different math courses, from pre-calculus tolinear algebra.
C Programming

Research Assistant

Nov 2010Mar 2011 · 4 mos · Boise, Idaho Area

  • Assisted Dr. Elisa Barney Smith with research on image recognition of cursive text. Performed image binarization on selected scanned images.

Student Assistant

Aug 2007Nov 2010 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Boise, Idaho Area

  • Aided international students in determining the requirements for admission to Boise State, and provided details about obtaining student visas.

Education

Boise State University

B.S.

Boise State University

M.S. — Computer Science

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