Contacts

E-mail: [email protected]
Skype/Telegram: BioDranik
GitHub: github.com/biodranik
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/alexanderborsuk
Facebook: facebook.com/biodranik

Experience

June 2016 — till now

Founding Investor @ VibroBox: Scalable, automated vibration diagnostics service for prescriptive maintenance, smart contracts, IIoT and Industry 4.0. The team of scientists and engineers with a digital signal processing expertise is led by Igor Davydov, Ph.D. and is focused on wavelets, machine learning, fuzzy logic and other algorithms to create a "digital twin" of the analyzed equipment, extract all details about internal defects and provide proactive maintenance recommendations.

Business operations, strategy & development
Financing
Hosting and load scaling
Developed iOS and Android apps to record audio and other sensors data
Web service UI and concepts
Web site landing pages
Translations of scientific Russian into Common English

July 2010 — June 2016

MAPS.ME – open-source, detailed offline maps of the World for iOS and Android, based on crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap data

System Architect @ Mail.Ru Group/Co-Founder, January 2015 - June 2016

Developed offline map editor for MAPS.ME with direct upload to crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap database
Open-sourced MAPS.ME code https://github.com/mapsme/omim
Developed and integrated open-source cross-platform statistics https://github.com/biodranik/Alohalytics

CTO/Co-Founder, November 2013 - January 2015

Scaling of maps data distribution and HTTP delivery services to match growing user base
Product management and releases delivery
Ported Open Source Routing Machine for offline navigation to iOS and Android
Gradle build system integration
New features development and bug fixing
Web sites deployment

CEO/Co-Founder, February 2012 — November 2013

Product management and releases delivery
Increased userbase from 120K to 2.5M
Break-even revenue generation
Built dev and marketing teams (13 people)
Developed and released 26 offline travel guides apps http://guidewithme.com
Established development office in Minsk, Belarus
Business development, PR and marketing
New features development and bug fixing
Perfected users support

Co-Founder, July 2010 — February 2012

OpenStreetMap data processing pipeline
High load client/server maps distribution via HTTP
Unicode normalization for multilanguage offline search
Native user interface for iOS and Android, QT user interface for Mac, Windows and Linux
Compiled/ported core code to iOS, Android, Bada, Mac OS X, minGW, Linux, Windows XP/Vista/7

September 2010 — February 2011

First Mode Limited, Product Manager/Technical Director

Case Management System for cross-platform web clients

Public Relations
Generated concepts and ideas for system design and UI and created functional specifications
Planned timeline and estimated tasks with developers
Organized developers team and maintained project infrastructure.

February 2008 — July 2010

BLRSoft (now HTC Blr), mobile platforms development, Senior Software Engineer/Team and Technical Leader/Human Resource Manager/Linux Administrator

Search project for Symbian and Windows Mobile

Implemented Symbian devices data text indexing and search functionality.
Universal Content Provider project for Symbian and Windows Mobile
Implemented and maintained Symbian data providers with access to device's contacts, messages, calendar, bookmarks, network connections.
Ported library for different Symbian platforms (3.1, 3.2, 5.0, N97) and maintained Windows Mobile compatibility.
Symbian Idle homescreens for European cellular operators
Managed projects tasks and organized local developer and QA teams, including testing with different prototype devices.
Designed projects architecture for different Symbian platforms
Developed a number of core components, including UI, networking, calendar events, contacts database, missed calls, messages, e-mails, status pane.
Ported projects to Symbian 3.1, 3.2 and 5.0 (touch) devices.
Wrote technical and architectural specifications.
Integrated and used best practices from Agile/Extreme/Scrum programming methodologies for the projects.
CardBrowser for Symbian, microSD card autolaunch menu
Planned timeline and designed architecture and components.
Implemented different UI and core library parts, including interactive controls, animation engine, ini-parser, images loading and caching mechanism.
Mobile crossplatform GUI library for Windows Mobile and Symbian
Investigated and reviewed existing code and architecture with all it's pros and cons.
Migrated code base from C to C++, from SVN to Mercurial.
Developed and maintained different system components, including messaging, networking and UI.
Internal company infrastructure support
Looked for new developers and iterviewed them.
Maintained Ubuntu/Debian linux administrative tasks: virtual servers, backup, mail, network, wiki, LDAP, Mercurial etc.
Managed projects documentation on TRAC and internal wiki.
Implemented cross-platform python autobuild system.

October 2007 — February 2008

InfoTechnology Inc., belarussian division of XIM company, Senior Software Engineer

Midomi, music and hum/sing recognition client for Symbian devices

Got rich development experience with Symbian OS system environment and development tools.
Designed and implemented GUI for mobile client software, among with http-based advertisement and http player.
OpenWave C++ firmware for cheap mobile phones
Developed a number of XSL transformations to convert internal XML documentation, which is also the source for C++ headers, into XML DITA format.
Automated QA processes with supporting perl scripts, including URL grabber, Purify log analyzer, html reports generator.

July 2007 — August 2007

DVD Ripper/Player Station

Designed and implemented software for Windows, including GUI, movies library, video files and DVD Playback with DirectShow, second monitor/projector support and multiDVD drives support.

September 2006 — October 2007

Belsoft Borlas Group, IT outsourcing solutions, Software Engineer/Team Leader

Smart IP, tcp/udp network optimizer and switcher

Redesigned Windows Mobile client GUI and ported it to WM5.0.
Integrated automatic Code Signing pipeline for Windows Mobile 5.0 client, including developer certificates at development stage and VeriSign certificates for production based on Microsoft Mobile2Market program.
Developed and maintained software installation packages for different Windows platforms.
Ported existing client/server code for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, including LSP and NDIS network drivers.
Implemented log files analyzer and statistics generator.
Created dozen of Functional Specifications and Design documents for different software components.

July 2004 – September 2006

Credo Dialogue, scientific & industrial company, CAD-systems development, Software Engineer

Topoplan and Genplan CAD software, 3D terrain/buildings modeling and editing

Designed and implemented many geometry primitives manipulation modules, for example, points creation/editing, circle aligning with splines etc.
Designed and implemented math parabola library.
Implemented several complex user interface dialogs.
Organized and maintained internal project documentation, including web site, automatic code documentation system with DoxyGen.
Got strong C++ and STL experience with algorithms and big data sets.

July 2003 – May 2004

Spark IT, internet services development, Software Design Engineer and Team Leader

Messenger2 or M2 – Internet messenger with ICQ, AIM, MSN, Yahoo and IRC support, chat encryption, file sharing, video and audio conferences

Found 4 developers and organized project team.
Designed general product's architecture and components.
Implemented multiprotocol core layer, ICQ and AIM protocols support libraries, UI and configuration dialogs.

September 2000 – May 2003

EliteAuto, Official Volvo dealer in Belarus, Network and System administrator

Routing and maintenance of Windows networks in offices

Non-commercial projects

June 2007 — May 2008

Crossplatform IRC News Feeds Publisher Bot

Designed and implemented highly configurable IRC bot for Windows and Linux, using curl, libmrss and libnxml libraries for RSS/Atom/XML parsing with full range character encodings support. It still lives in ByNets.org IRC network and publishes news ;)

October 2004 — 2014

ByNets — Belarussian IRC network, IRC network coordinator co-founder

Created and supported public belarussian IRC network.
Created and supported main web site based on RunCMS and later on Drupal.
Configured and maintained several UnrealIRCd hub servers based on Linux and Windows.

September 2003 — June 2008

U6/X6 local network in Minsk, Home network administrator

Residential (non-commercial) local network organisation (more than 350 machines).
Provided IP, media and news services for local network users.
Maintained Debian Linux and Windows 2003 servers with different LAN services, including local web sites and free hosting.
Designed and implemented routing, DNS and DHCP between subnetworks, including long-range (several kilometers), point-to-point Wi-Fi connections to other residential networks.
Implemented a lot of network administering Perl scripts for servers maintenance and network traffic analyzing.

October 2002 — May 2003

Belarussian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, Student

Feedback Shift Registers Sequences generator and analysis
Designed and implemented fast core algorithm for binary sequences generator and GUI for statistics visualization.

Education

September 2016 – January 2018

Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics in Minsk, Belarus

Master of Applied Science (Informational Radiotechnologies on Faculty of Radioengineering and Electronics)

September 1999 – June 2004