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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.
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Russian
Fluent
English
Fluent
Work Experience
iOS Engineer at Ayta AI (real-time speech processor)
April 1, 2025 - August 1, 2025Measured 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 at Lenta Online (leading e-grocery in Russia)
April 1, 2021 - March 1, 2024Owned 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 at Linguix (keyboard with AI suggestions)
September 1, 2020 - April 1, 2021Built 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 at LitRes (leading e-book shop in Russia)
September 1, 2019 - September 1, 2020Developed streaming audio player with CarPlay and advanced caching. Optimized performance of the C++ reader core.
iOS Engineer at Binet (app studio)
September 1, 2018 - September 1, 2019Delivered and supported 10+ client apps as part of an app studio team.
Education
PhD at MIREA - Russian Technological University
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2016Qualifications
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Software & Internet, Media & Entertainment
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