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Senior Software Engineer at Velo3D

Campbell, CA, 2022/05 – 2023/10

Maintained C++ software core of 3D printing process for the company's flagship product: 3D Metal Printer

• • Designed and implemented metal powder loading procedure integrated with an intuitive UI (Qt) for new printer operators, relieving supervision of FSE to prevent equipment clogging and weeks of shutdown.

  • Prevented unauthorized usage of the client’s 3D designs by developing a cross-project cryptography solution, allowing printing only at approved 3D printers with limited quantity.

  • Mitigated the risk of about a week of downtime of interrupted 3D printing by implementing detection of critical SSD degradation through brand-specific SMART metrics. Prepared fail-over solution to proxy all file operations through system service and seamlessly switch to spare SSD when latency spike detected.

Technical Lead at Guzik Technical Enterprises

Mountain View, CA, 2021/09 – 2022/04

Led revenue focused projects in four engineers’ team for HDD manufacturing partners.

• Improved eight-fold throughput of customer QC scenarios by dismissing warm-up stages with next-gen HDD cartridge. Led development of software and firmware for the cartridge integration into existing equipment.

• Invented clear metrics to analyze HDD head positioning quality. Prototyped as Python scripts, demonstrated in multiple scenarios, adopted as one of the major company’s metrics, and rewritten as C++ optimized solution.

• Facilitated customer adoption of the branded PRML chip-adapter board by integrating their previous third-party board into common testing scenarios through C++ API, revealing the Guzik board as at least two times faster.

Senior Software Engineer at Guzik Technical Enterprises

Mountain View, CA, 2013/10 – 2021/09

Innovated and maintained solutions for top-tier digitizers product line, HDD partners, and infrastructure.

• Developed from scratch proprietary Windows kernel-driver (WDF) dedicated for the branded PCI devices, eliminating third-party driver’s annual licensing fees (~$100K for currently shipped systems).

• Devised multi-tone FRF build approach for System Identification at software and firmware levels collaborating with FPGA-team, resulting in improved user operations delay from 200 to 10 seconds with no loss in accuracy.

• Created full-stack software and firmware for a novel proprietary group-delay measurement equipment. This system now plays a crucial role in the digitizers' production cycle, ensuring fine final calibration.

• Delivered highly demanded technology Two-Dimensional Magnetic Recording (TDMR) at HDD market by redesigning entire product software Python/VB/C++ modules to accommodate multiple read channels.

• Established CI/CD infrastructure for all company’s projects, including build pipelines (Jenkins), Virtual build agents (Hyper-V) and C++ unit-testing (MSTest). It played a key role in the transition to x64 architecture.

Senior Software Engineer at Plesk branch of Parallels Inc

Novosibirsk, Russia, 2004/09 – 2013/10

Developed Web Administration software solution at all levels: frontend, backend, database, and deployment.

• Eliminated critical load of support tickets related to install/upgrade problems by redesigning product deployment from scratch: CI, packaging, and patching processes. Led three engineers’ team to deliver the refactoring, based on C#/C++ code and Wix, NAnt and Jenkins frameworks.

• Increased customer’s adoption of new applications by integrating package-manager into the web control panel. My team developed the package-manager as a common code CMake/C++ solution for Linux and Windows.

• Adjusted and optimized Plesk hosting platform for virtual environments, increasing the number of its Guest instances per Virtuozzo host server from 4 to 50.

Software Engineer at Laser Research Laboratory

Novosibirsk, Russia, 2001/11 – 2004/10

Provided software support for research projects with laser equipment.

• Delivered new hologram writing equipment that decreased production time from 1week to 40 minutes by developing precision control software for synchronizing mechanical and optical components of the equipment.

• Developed application for composing and 3D representation multi-layer holograms (OpenGL). 

Languages, frameworks and tools

• C++

• C

• Python

• Rust

• CMake

• Scala

• JavaScript

• VB

• PHP

• Qt

• Git

• Conan

• WiX

• Jenkins

• Win API

• POSIX

• MATLAB

• .NET

• PHP

• MySQL 

Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia                   1999-2004

Master of Science in Computer Science

Higher College of Informatics, Novosibirsk, Russia               1997-2001

Associate Degree in Computer Engineering