Android Developer

Experience

Android Developer / Serenity

Full-time, Remote

Apr 2022 - Present

• Projects: Listglobally / Properstar (100 Real Estate Portals in +60 Countries) 

• Environment: MotionLayout, Contentful API

Contribute to the full application development lifecycle for ListGlobally/Properstar android application from planning, requirement gathering, development, testing, and launching on Google play store for beta testing. Research application acceptance and solicit feedback to make the application more user-friendly. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate cross-functionally with product design, marketplace ops, analytics etc. to ensure a solid end-to-end strategy and execution.

• Work with complex animations (including MotionLayout). 

• Create custom views including user-friendly phone input layout.

• Add new features including property valuation flow with a new multi-step wizard, display for new developments, and visually appealing sell/valuation landing screens (using Contentful).

• Work with Google Maps API to incorporate clustering features and custom markers.

Key Achievements:

• Boosted app rating in store to 4.5 average and increased number of ratings by raising the initiative and adding in-app review flow.

• Fixed backlog of bugs.

Android Developer / AppCraft

Full-time, Remote

Oct 2021 - Apr 2022

• Projects: Troupopup, Scout 

• Tech Stack: Kotlin, MVVM/MVP (Legacy, Moxy), Kotlin Coroutines/Flow, RxJava (Legacy), Koin for DI, Mutlimodule Clean Architecture, Retrofit/OkHttp

Worked on all phases of the project including design, development, testing and deployment. Tested the applications on multiple android targets and debugged any issues.

Key Responsibilities:

• Worked in a team environment; participated in code reviews.

• Built a visually appealing app for listening to audio stories while visiting some bars (mobile theater).

• Worked extensively with ExoPlayer; created custom player layouts along with background playback and state of playback restoration.

• Worked on an app which utilised 3 different map layers - Google, OSM (OpenStreetMap) and Yandex, displaying vehicles and their stats.

Key Achievements:

• Successfully delivered a range of robust and user-friendly applications for clients.

Android Developer / Grokhotov Studio(Positron-IT)

Full-time

May 2021 - Oct 2021

St Petersburg City, Russia

Worked on all project phases including design, development, testing and deployment for a large-scale (~300k MAU) e-book library app. Supported older apps/refactored legacy code. Collaborated cross-functionally with product design, marketplace ops, analytics and more to ensure a solid end-to-end strategy and execution.

Key Responsibilities:

• Contributed to the design of the application architecture and its constituent software components.

• Worked with team to troubleshoot, debug, and fix issues in production and non-production environments.

• Contribute to the innovation, data, design, critique, and continual improvement of the app.

Key Achievements:

• Used product requirements and technical designs to write well-engineered, robust code with very low crash rate (considering min API 19).

Junior Android Developer | Service Engineer / Nexign

Full-time

Nov 2018 - May 2021

St Petersburg City, Russia

Developed Android apps and provided internal IT services and infrastructure support to billing software development company.

Key Responsibilities:

• Attended internal Java and Kotlin programming courses.

• Created QR/Barcode scanning app for getting company's equipment data from Jira instance.

• Observed modern development practices - CI/CD, DevOps etc. 

• Applied problem-solving skills to solving hard-to-identify source issues.

Technical Support Specialist / Ventra HR Holding

Oct 2015 – Nov 2018

St. Petersburg, Russia

• Worked as out staff for helpdesk at Heineken Brewery Corporation. 

• Collaborated with internal teams internationally. 

• Supported iOS app used by company's trade representatives. 

• Participated in identifying and resolving P1(critical) incidents. 

• Escalated issues as needed. 

• Gained/applied ITSM knowledge

Technical Support Specialist / MTS Group

Full-time

Nov 2013 - Oct 2015

St Petersburg City, Russia

• Worked with members of IT Service Desk, Network Administration, Data Center Operations and Application Development and Support teams to complete Service Desk tickets, IT projects, hardware/software inventories and maintenance and upgrade tasks. 

• Attended internal and external meetings as requested to provide expertise, gathered data, and collaborated with other IT and business personnel. 

• Performed hardware and software installations, upgrades and system enhancements.

Technical Support Engineer / LLC “High Technologies” Visteh.ru

Full-time

Jun 2012 - Oct 2013

St Petersburg City, Russia

• Provided technical support of sale points and mobile terminals, resolving various issues.