Daria Ryazhskikh, Developer in Tallinn, Estonia
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Daria Ryazhskikh

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Software Developer

Location
Tallinn, Estonia
Toptal Member Since
September 3, 2015

Daria is a skilled and experienced mobile software developer, having developed native Android applications for over ten years. She is dedicated, reliable, and efficient. Daria knows the best practices in mobile development and can organize the development process.

Portfolio

Unreel (via Toptal)
BrightScript, Roku, Kotlin, Android
DevPocket
Java, Android SDK
i-Free
Java, Android SDK

Experience

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Git, Android Studio

The most amazing...

...feature I've developed for Android was something that generated video from frames and a sound file.

Work Experience

Android Developer

2016 - 2018
Unreel (via Toptal)
  • Developed a platform for quickly creating branded Android applications with video content.
  • Integrated ExoPlayer.
  • Implemented casting to Chromecast.
  • Developed a circular list UI component.
  • Developed a similar platform for Roku.
Technologies: BrightScript, Roku, Kotlin, Android

Android Developer

2012 - 2015
DevPocket
  • Developed several client-server Android applications from scratch.
  • Created a useful library of Android tools and wrote documentation for it.
  • Implemented a media streaming playback and caching engine with JellyBean Media API.
  • Implemented Android View for showing SVG paths.
  • Implemented ListView with horizontal scrolling.
  • Researched WiFi direct API to find out if it is possible to develop an iOS-Android chat app with it.
  • Worked remotely for 2 years.
Technologies: Java, Android SDK

Senior Android Developer

2011 - 2012
i-Free
  • Worked in the Everfriends voice-driven assistant team.
  • Designed and developed for the application's core and plugin system.
  • Implemented text-to-speech functionality via Google TTS, Loquendo, and SVOX.
  • Implemented integrations to social services (publishing to Facebook, YouTube, Vkontakte, Odnoklassniki, and Renren).
  • Contributed to widget development.
  • Implemented a feature to generate video from frames and sounds via FFmpeg.
Technologies: Java, Android SDK

Android Developer

2010 - 2011
Injoit
  • Implemented an application for streaming videos for children.
  • Started working with the FFmpeg library and wrote an article about how to link it to an Android project (in those times it was pretty difficult).
  • Implemented video publication to Facebook and YouTube.
  • Implemented a nice quiz view.
  • Worked remotely.
Technologies: Java, Android SDK

Junior Researcher

2009 - 2011
Hydrotex
  • Worked on the system for estimation of concrete abrasion of hydrostructures.
  • Contributed to the development of a mathematical model.
  • Developed the calculation application.
  • Developed a utility for visualizing concrete abrasions.
Technologies: Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), .NET

.NET Developer

2008 - 2008
FarPost
  • Worked on a web statistics service, mostly maintaining its interface.
  • Organized Selenium auto-testing.
Technologies: .NET, Microsoft, ASP.NET

Delphi Developer

2006 - 2008
G.I. Nevelskoy Maritime State University, Vladivostok
  • Contributed to the development of a data processing system for education control, as a unit for the dean’s office.
  • Developed a web application for university chairs to register students’ interim results.
Technologies: Microsoft SQL Server, Delphi

FullGlass

https://apkpure.com/fullglass/com.getfullglass
A client app for viewing venues in NYC and getting free drinks. Uses a back-end on Parse.com, deep linking features from Branch.io, and billing from Stripe.

Drive2

An Android client for the DRIVE.NET portal. Offers basic functions of the car community, including viewing news feeds, reading and commenting on user posts, creating posts and photo reports, viewing car and member profiles, etc. Also contains a simple messenger.

Drive

An application for DRIVE.NET. Offers car news feed, commenting, bookmarking, and sharing posts. Also has nice voting features.

Direct/ADVERT

An Android client for an advertising system. Shows different statistics, expenses, and incomes of ad campaigns for advertisers and partners.

RussiaSport

An Android client for RussiaSport.ru. Viewing sport news, photo galleries, and events schedule, and streaming video translations.

Enloca

An Android client for finding discounts in different venues in St. Petersburg. It tracks the user's position, looking for nearby venues and showing barcodes and details for discounts.

Multimedia Platform for Unreel.me

A codebase for creating customized Android applications with video content. With this platform, building an application with its own resources and content takes less than an hour. About 15 applications based on this platform are now published. The link refers to the first one.

Languages

Java, Delphi, Kotlin, BrightScript, HTML, C#

Frameworks

Android SDK, .NET, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), ASP.NET, Selenium

Libraries/APIs

GSON, Retrofit, Volley Android Library, Google Maps SDK, Parse SDK, Mixpanel Android API, Fresco, Joda-Time, Flurry, Picasso, VK API, Facebook API

Tools

Android Studio, Gradle, Crashlytics, Git, Branch.io, Aviary, Eclipse Memory Analyzer, Android NDK

Platforms

Android, Oracle, Microsoft

Storage

SQLite, Microsoft SQL Server

Other

Roku, Stripe Payments, OkHttp

2002 - 2007

Specialist's Degree in Applied Mathematics

Far Eastern State University - Vladivostok, Russia

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