Dmitry Vasilyev
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Dmitry is a VR/AR/XR and Unreal Engine expert with 15+ years of prior experience as a full-stack developer. He is a great communicator with a strong product vision who loves to help build excellent products and perfect them in every aspect. Dmitry has brought tens of products from scratch to the market and has delivered them to Vodafone, Pfizer, H&M, Accenture, BMW, and others.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Unreal Engine 4, Unreal Engine, Node.js, JavaScript, WebGL, C++, Three.js, Unreal Engine 5, ARKit, Web3.js
The most amazing...
...things I’ve developed are a unique full-body tracking technology for my location-based VR parks—Sfera.one, and an AI system for character animation—Elize.AI.
Work Experience
CEO | Founder
elize.AI
- Developed technology for automatic character animation, which is now used to animate one of the world's best conversational AI–Kuki, Mitsuku.
- Created an Unreal Engine 4 plugin and full MetaHuman support.
- Developed a back-end API with speech-to-text and text-to-speech integrations with Google Voice and Amazon Polly.
Co-founder | CTO
sfera.one
- Developed proprietary full-body free roam tracking technology; we were the first in the world to implement real full-body tracking with haptic feedback and hands tracking in LBVR venues.
- Designed and developed Phantom Squad and Arena games for the project, Unreal Engine 4-based.
- Managed the whole process of building and opening our first VR park, hired and managed operational staff.
- Raised $1 million of investment to bring sfera.one parks to China.
Head of Marketing | Product Manager | Advisor
Senso
- Joined the Senso team to help market and sell their products when the company had no clients. Now Senso products are being sold in more than 30 countries worldwide, and clients include NASA, US Military, Disney Research, and Airbus.
- Designed Senso Suit and Senso Eye systems for industrial VR training and LBE venues.
- Developed and designed an MVP of SensoRehab product, a haptic glove helping patients to rehabilitate after stroke.
Project Manager
Mobilfon
- Designed and managed developer teams to create iOS, Android, HTML5, web application for Galaxy social network with 60+ million users.
- Managed team of 14 developers and artists to create Parallel Worlds, cross-platform social app and game.
- Developed MVP and later managed developers team to create and support MTS Fitness, a mobile health app for the largest mobile carrier in Russia.
Lead Developer
In-galaxy
- Led the development team to create Web, iOS, and Android versions of the product.
- Designed the cross-platform architecture, which significantly reduced development time and budget.
- Ported the application from feature phones (J2ME) to emerging smartphone platforms, where the application grew to over 70 million users.
Experience
SensoRehab
I've used VR haptic gloves from Senso, which were created for VR games, and developed MVP of post-stroke rehabilitation product - games that motivated patients to exercise more and restore theirs hand motoric. I developed a cross-platform JavaScript app and later hired and managed a team of an artist and three developers to expand the product. Nowadays, I'm providing advisory for the project, which has successfully passed several clinical trials and is used in many hospitals in Russia.
AI for Character Animation
I developed in-house technology for my projects for real-time automatic 100% procedural animations of character facial expression and lipsync. The project gained much interest from developers and game studios, so I started a company and allowed third-party use of the technology. Now it is used to animate one of the world best conversational AI – Kuki and
Mitsuku www.kuki.ai.
Breakthrough Full-body Tracking Technology
http://www.sfera.oneSkills
Languages
JavaScript, C++, TypeScript, Python, GraphQL, RPG, ActionScript 3, C#, PHP, HTML5, Flash ActionScript
Frameworks
Unreal Engine 4, Unreal Engine, Blueprint, Express.js, Redux, Unity, Next.js, ARKit, Laravel
Libraries/APIs
Node.js, WebGL, React, REST APIs, Babylon.js, Three.js, Web3.js, WebRTC, WebXR, Vue
Tools
Git, GitHub, Jira, Unreal Development Kit (UDK), Visual Studio, Cluster, Xcode, Adobe Flash
Paradigms
Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Data-oriented Design, Data Science, Mobile Development, Management, Parallel Computing, Mobile UX Design, Scrum, Agile
Platforms
Oculus Rift, Oculus, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Mobile, Desktop, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Shopify, iOS, Android, Blockchain, PlayStation, Xbox, Web
Storage
MySQL, MongoDB, JSON, Databases, PostgreSQL, Redis
Industry Expertise
Healthcare, Project Management, Marketing
Other
Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), Game Development, User Experience (UX), Full-stack, Blueprints Visual Scripting, Multiplayer, 3D Games, Interactive UX, App Infrastructure, Networking, 3D, Plugins, Mobile Game Development, MMORPGs, WebSockets, HTTP, Data Scraping, Data Processing, Full-stack Development, Game Design, Leadership, Animation, Smartphones, Tablets & Smartphones, Front-end, Data Management, Web Scraping, API Integration, Software QA, Back-end, Visualization, Mathematics, Video Streaming, Healthcare Services, Healthcare IT, Gameplay Development, Web Development, Interactive UI, Team Leadership, CTO, Cloud Infrastructure, Visual Effects (VFX), Technical Leadership, Architecture, Software Architecture, Game Production, Extended Reality (XR), CI/CD Pipelines, Code Review, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Airtable, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), TCP/IP, UDP, Econometrics, Statistics, Programming, Economics, Business, Supercomputers, Distributed Systems, Machine Learning, Investor Relations, Fundraising, Entertainment & Leisure, Web Marketing, Offline Marketing, Product Design, MVP Design, Product Management, IT Project Management, Web Project Management, Web Programming, Web Product Management, Mobile UX, Enterprise SaaS, APIs, Frameworks, Tracking, Location Based Virtual Reality (LBVR), Unreal Engine 5, Scalability
Education
Specialization in Parallel Computing
Institute of Computational Modelling of the Siberian Branch of the RAS - Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Specialist Degree in Economics
Siberian Federal University (former Krasnoyarsk State University) - Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Engineer's Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science
Siberian Federal University (former Krasnoyarsk State University) - Krasnoyarsk, Russia
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