Software Engineer / Engieering Manager

Hello, my name is Ilia Kolo (legal name is Ilia Kolomeitsev).

I am a seasoned software engineer with a solid and diverse technical background, starting with script languages (Python, Typescript, Ruby and more) to cross-platform (Qt, C/C++), Apple (ObjC, Swift) and Android (Kotlin), backend (Node.js, Ruby on Rails).

My main expertise is in building high-quality, maintainable and scalable software solutions with Swift. I am passionate about creating products that solve real-world problems and have a strong work ethic.

As an Engineering Manager, I have successfully led teams of 8-10 engineers distributed across the globe, working on complex and ambitious software initiatives. I believe in fostering a collaborative and inclusive work environment, valuing diverse perspectives.

My leadership style:

• Create close trust relationship with engineers, leveraging unique skills of engineers. Provide clear and timely actionable feedback.
• Be close to the tech side but not interfere, be on-call to understand the product and find opportunities of improvements.
• Create self-organized teams with engineers able to speak up and propose solutions, all while being in a friendly environment.
• Help them grow personally and professionally.
• Be transparent in communication with all stakeholders, and be open to learning from others.

Experience

Freelance

• Helping friendly car service shop with their WordPress site, setting up store

• Writing iOS application with ARKit

Alludo (Parallels)

• Managed teams building RAS clients (Android, iOS, macOS, Linux), Toolbox for Windows and for Mac, with engineers located across time zones, 10 direct reports.

• Scope planning, prioritization, shaping cross-team communication.

• Hiring, staffing and capacity planning.

• 1-1s, performance review, promotions, compensation decisions, tailored personal and professional growth plans.

• Ensured alignment with product team, performing functional and requirement analysis.

• Hands-on: active participant in architectural / design decisions; PR reviews; customer escalations investigation; creation of PoCs for upcoming features.

• Led the adoption of the new UI (Swift, SwiftUI, MVVM, Combine, SwiftPM).

• Improved test coverage of existing code, covered new code with tests (XCTest).

• Amplitude telemetry integration across multiple applications to collect usage statistics.

• CI/CD improvements (building scripts, notarization, Jenkins, groovy scripts).

• Helped to shape the upcoming reorganization of the company in our Business Unit.

Twilio

• Responsible for Conversations and Sync iOS SDKs development (ObjC, Swift, C++, Cocoa, SwiftPM, Carthage)

• Participated in JS SDK development (TypeScript)

• Helped to bootstrap React Native app along with Node.js back-end

• Designed features for SDKs aligning requirements and details with back-end teams

• Created iOS demo applications (iOS SDK, UIKit)

• Managed a team of contractor developers with the support of a senior EM, planning sprints, improving communication between them, our team and several back-end teams.

• Responsible for configuring and maintaining build systems (CircleCI, Travis, Bitrise, GitHub Actions, GitHub App), testing services (Firebase TestLab).

• Mentoring interns, actively participated in an interview process, helped in building of a company-wide interview framework.

Marina Ahoy

• Developed and maintained an iOS application (iOS SDK, UIKit, MVVM).

• Implemented a payment pipeline from different providers throughout the years.

• Integrated social account authentification.

• Facilitated discussions of the future of the product as a whole, and of mobile applications in particular.

• Led iOS and Android development plans.

Parallels

• Worked on Parallels Toolbox for macOS application.

• Developed several different tools with deep system integration.

• Moved authenticated tasks to a special daemon.

• Started migration of the project code from ObjC to Swift.

• Introduced unit testing in the project (XCTest)

• Mentored teammates.