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Valerii

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Hi, I’m Valerii, an iOS developer based in Tbilisi with 8 years of experience in large tech environments.

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Hi, I’m Valerii, an iOS developer based in Tbilisi with 8 years of experience in large tech environments. I’ve led a team of 12 engineers and driven architectural decisions that balance speed and quality while scaling mobile platforms.

I’m proficient in Swift, Objective-C, UIKit and SwiftUI, with a track record of optimizing deployment processes and improving development workflows. I enjoy guiding organizations through tough product choices and turning complex requirements into scalable, maintainable mobile apps.

  • 5 years' experience
  • Joined February 2026

Skills· 3

Languages

  • RussianFluent
  • EnglishFluent

Industry experience

  • Software & Internet
  • Media & Entertainment

Work experience· 5 roles

iOS Engineer · Ayta AI (real-time speech processor)Apr 2025 – Aug 2025 · 5 mos

Measured and optimized performance of real-time audio processing. Optimized a speech converter for stutter support, reducing the audio pipeline latency from 1.3s to 0.9s through multithreading and improved audio capture.

iOS Team/Tech Lead · Lenta Online (leading e-grocery in Russia)Apr 2021 – Mar 2024 · 3 yrs

Owned technical direction of the iOS codebase for four brands. Led hiring and knowledge sharing, improved maintainability; increased crash-free rate from 94% to 99.9%; scaled the team from 4 to 12 engineers. Designed and launched an A/B testing system with multi-provider analytics and dashboards. Reduced CI build time by 7x and stabilized pipelines by reworking app signing and distribution.

iOS Engineer · Linguix (keyboard with AI suggestions)Sep 2020 – Apr 2021 · 8 mos

Built companion app for grammar-checking keyboard. Onboarding for new users; configuration and selection of keyboard in system (with limited iOS keyboard API, some workarounds required).

iOS Engineer · LitRes (leading e-book shop in Russia)Sep 2019 – Sep 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo
iOS Engineer · Binet (app studio)Sep 2018 – Sep 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

Education

PhD · MIREA - Russian Technological University2030 – 2016

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