Experience
2024 — Now
2024 — Now
PostHog AI team
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2023 — 2024
2023 — 2024
New York, United States
• Developed a parenting app answering key questions like "is this normal?" and "what to expect?", leveraging analysis of over 62,000 survey responses and enabling predictive insights into future well-being and developmental stages, achieving over 50,000 installs.
• Established the technical architecture; developed a major part of Python back-end using Django Rest Framework, mobile apps using React Native and web apps using React and Next.js, ensuring 99.99% uptime.
• Served as Technical Lead, focusing on strategic initiatives with founders to grow the customer base, resulting in cost per install 2x lower than the average in the "Health" category.
• Implemented data pipelines for training and validation of AI models, continuously integrating survey and database data, achieving a 12x reduction in deployment time of new datasets.
• Spearheaded the creation of interactive visual stories for quiz results, increasing user engagement by 50% and enhancing data interpretation.
Learn more about Sleuth: https://www.forbes.com/sites/amyshoenthal/2023/11/06/sleuth-app-uses-ai-to-help-parents-navigate-kids-medical-needs/
2019 — 2022
2019 — 2022
New York, United States
• Led a team of five developers remotely using Agile, performing code reviews, mentoring junior members, working with internal stakeholders and users to incorporate feedback into the applications until the company's acquisition.
• Increased the engineering team's ROI by 25% through upgrading a tech stack, developing internal tools, implementing observability and automated quality assurance, creating a design system, refining build tools, resulting in 10% fewer incidents and seamless scaling.
• Refactored a scoring service, reducing time required for processing mortgage applicants to minutes, improving NPS by 15%.
• Designed and developed a microservice-based system for scraping Google, Yelp and Twitter, providing data for internal credit scoring, achieving a 3x reduction in cost.
2016 — 2019
2016 — 2019
New York, United States
• Led the development of a mindfulness platform, achieving over 700k downloads, 20,000+ MAU, and a 4.7 average user rating.
• Optimized video delivery, increasing platform availability in regions with slower Internet speeds and reducing failed video plays, boosting a program completion rate by 19%.
• Paid down technical debt gradually and pioneered the transition from Sketch and Illustrator to Figma, reducing by 30% development time of frontend apps.
• Contributed significantly to the recruitment process, resulting in the successful hiring of four engineers, coordinating with both internal teams and external clients.
2014 — 2016
2014 — 2016
• Migrated a SaaS email template editor from WordPress to a React-based SPA, achieving correct displaying of emails in 100% of major clients and services.
• Refactored a billing module of a backed service written in Node.js, achieving a 12% reduction in dropped carts and increased reliability of the payment system.
• Collaborated with a team of designers, developers, and marketing professionals to create dynamic and engaging WordPress and React websites for a diverse client base.
Education
Higher School of Economics
Bachelor in Computer Science
2014 — 2018