Pavel Shevchuk's CV

• Phone: +371 26 115 112
• Email: stlwrt@gmail.com
• Location: Riga, Latvia
• Website: thestalwart.github.io
• LinkedIn: pavelshevchuk
• GitHub: TheStalwart

Summary

Software Engineer with 15+ years of iOS application development experience, looking for opportunities to leverage legacy Objective-C, Swift and UIKit knowledge, or learn something new.

Experience

Vialet.eu / Mellifera.team, Leading iOS Developer

Sept 2019 – Oct 2024

5 years 2 months

Maintained fintech iOS application and developed new features.

Tools: iOS, Xcode, Objective-C, Swift, UIKit, REST APIs

• Reverse engineered a proprietary middleware and reimplemented its API to escape vendor lock-in

• Worked with Customer Support team to discover and permanently solve as many recurring issues as possible, and aid in research of remaining edge cases

• Documented the mobile app code to such extent it was eventually used by backend developers as a reference

• Profiled and fixed performance bottlenecks to preserve compatibility with older devices

CTE / Skywind Tech LV, Leading Mobile Game Developer

Sept 2014 – Nov 2018

4 years 3 months

Developed and maintained mobile games for iOS and Android.

Tools: iOS, Android, Objective-C, C++, Swift, Java, ActionScript/AIR, Cocos2d-x, Starling, Apache Cordova, Jira, Jenkins CI, Google Analytics

• Profiled and optimized Flash/AIR game engine to improve framerate 600% on iPhone 4

• Maintained 4x game engines for compliance with mobile app storefronts, social media and marketing middleware

• Implemented custom properties in Google Analytics to understand device targeting priorities

• Helped QA and Customer Support departments to transition expertise from web to mobile games

• Helped CI/CD team to implement game resource conversion pipelines

VeryPositive, iOS Developer

Apr 2011 – Aug 2014

3 years 5 months

Developed various iOS applications.

Tools: iOS, Xcode, Objective-C, UIKit, REST APIs

• Learned Objective-C and UIKit with no prior mobile app development experience, while staying on schedule to deliver value to customers

Valiant Vision, Full-Stack Web Developer

Jan 2008 – Mar 2011

3 years 3 months

Developed clones of contemporary social media, dating websites and video streaming platforms.

Tools: Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP

• Worked beyond the definition of "Full-Stack Web Developer", to consult customers what kind of hardware to buy, assembled the servers, maintained Linux on bare metal, and developed the web applications according to business requirements

RPGSalez.com, Full-Stack Web Developer

May 2008 – Feb 2009

10 months

Developed a MMORPG currency online shop and back-office.

Tools: Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP

• Implemented a game currency online shop that used human editable CSV files as a data source, as specifically requested by the business owner

UniNet, Network Technician

June 2005 – Aug 2007

2 years 3 months

Made sure customers are always online.

Tools: Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, JavaScript, HLDS, Lua

• Developed a custom network monitoring application

• Overhauled Counter-Strike 1.6 server to reduce average ping from 50ms to 10ms

Personal Projects

RetroMultiplayer

Apr 2017 – present

Organized social gaming events.

Tools: NSIS, VBScript, PowerShell, Windows XP, Windows 11, TrueNAS

• Upcycled e-waste into retro gaming setups and network attached storage

• Developed maintenance utilities in VBScript, targeting Windows XP

• Developed maintenance utilities in PowerShell, targeting Windows 11

• Rescued legacy servers and workstations

iCalCord

Discovered an undocumented way of using public Discord API to extract event announcements, implemented a service to access the data in industry standard ICS feed format.

Tools: Python, discord.py, MongoDB, Sentry.io

TripAdvisor-GPX

Reverse engineered a web application and implemented a browser extension to extract lists of attractions in industry standard GPX format.

Tools: JavaScript, Tampermonkey

waze2gpx

Reverse engineered a proprietary format and implemented an easy to use web app for conversion of Waze ride history to industry standard formats.

Tools: JavaScript, Leaflet

Education

Riga Technical College, Computer system and network administrator

Sept 2008 – Feb 2011

College degree

Riga Technical College, Programming technician

Sept 2004 – June 2008

Vocational secondary education

Skills

Languages: English (fluent), Latvian (fluent), Russian (native)

Driver's License: A, B, BE