Lev Litvak
Verified Expert in Engineering
iOS Developer
Lev is an iOS developer with 3+ years of experience who solely handled highly appreciated 5-star lifestyle apps in the App Store. His overall 14+ years of IT background helps him develop better iOS apps with a modular architecture, quality code, and good test coverage. Lev loves learning, so he is already proficient with SwiftUI and Combine. He led a team that developed products for 150+ heat and water supply organizations—Lev knows how to deliver challenging projects with serious clients.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Xcode, iOS, Git
The most amazing...
...product I've managed and contributed to is the system for automating calculations and billing processes for a vast electricity transportation organization.
Work Experience
iOS Developer
Self-employed
- Developed three iOS apps and published them on the App Store.
- Created an investment iOS and watchOS app for personal use.
- Implemented the TDD approach in developing two apps, allowing the test code coverage of more than 80% for both.
- Integrated with various types of back ends using RESTful APIs. Integrated with CloudKit and Firebase as well.
- Used StoreKit and StoreKit2 to implement in-app purchases and subscriptions.
- Localized the app to five languages to increase the number of downloads.
Team Lead
Soft-portal
- Led a 6-person engineering team responsible for creating new and maintaining existing products for resource-supply organizations. The team created four desktop 1C apps, two mobile 1C apps, and a website used by more than 150 organizations.
- Designed and automated the tech support processes according to ITIL and product development processes. Developed the back end with a REST API for a website that provides tech support to clients with an automation system.
- Automated the procedure of building new releases of our products, reducing the cost of building new releases by three times.
- Created and implemented a system for auto-testing our main product using our client's databases. It reduced the number of bugs in new releases by two times, and I built it single-handedly.
- Developed the code guidelines for developers and reviewed code accordingly.
- Built and automated the system for measuring the quality of our product, which helped to improve the product quality by 30%.
- Developed the back end with a REST API for our product customers' website, one of the company's major products.
Project Manager
Soft-portal
- Managed a team of five developers to build a product for automating calculation and billing processes. This served an electricity transportation organization with 4+ million people in the region and 300+ product business users in several cities.
- Spearheaded a team of three developers creating a product for automating a heat supply organization with over 1.2 million people in the region and more than 180+ product business users, saving much of the client's time on calculations and reports.
- Designed and then managed a team of three developers building a back end and a website for customers of an electricity transportation organization. This made the process more convenient and time-efficient for the client and customers.
Developer
Soft-portal
- Developed an integration between the call center equipment and a business automation system for a heat supply organization. I also automated the flow of working with the debtor's business processes to reduce the amount of total debt by 25%.
- Automated the business processes of billing and managing resources in a heat supply organization. It allowed the client to automatically control the flow, form complex reports to monitor the whole process and make correct managing decisions.
- Built an integration between heat energy metering devices and a business automation system for a heat supply organization, reducing the meter's reading time handling by five times.
Developer
Kolos-S
- Finalized and implemented a program for a manufacturing business that enables automated and operational accounting, allowing the company to quickly calculate the production cost and save time and money on reports.
- Contributed to developing a product for elevator companies' automation that has 10+ elevator companies in the region using it.
- Completed and implemented a program for automating accounting in a grocery store, allowing the client to save time and money on accounting reports.
Experience
Wordowl Game
I implemented a TDD approach as the sole developer working on this app. As a result, the test coverage was more than 85%.
The central part of the app is the Composition Root. I built the UI with the SwiftUI framework and used Core Data for local storage and CloudKit for storing some data in a cloud database. The game contains plenty of custom views and UI animations.
LINK
• https://apps.apple.com/ru/app/словец-угадай-слово/id1665873273?platform=iphone
Investment App
https://github.com/litvakle/InvestmentsI implemented an MVVM UI design pattern. The UI is built with SwiftUI and tested with a third-party view inspector library. For the local storage, I used Core Data. I used Finnhub REST API for loading current stock prices and Firebase Realtime Database with REST API to store transactions. The app is not yet published in the App Store. For now, it only serves personal usage, but I'll publish it once its functionality is enhanced.
Mr Label
As the sole developer working on this app, I used an MVVM architecture, SwiftUI, Core Data, and the new StoreKit 2 to implement subscriptions. The app is published in the App Store and available in five languages.
Users consider the app valuable in their reviews, rating it five stars in the Russian and German App Store.
Personas
I solely developed the app with UIkit using an MVC design pattern. I used Realm as local storage and CloudKit as cloud storage. There are in-app purchases in the app maintained with StoreKit. I also integrated it with the Amplitude product analytics service and published the app in the App Store.
Users highly appreciate the app in their reviews, awarding it with an almost 5-star rating in the Russian App Store.
Skills
Languages
Swift, Swift 5, C, C++, XML, SQL
Frameworks
SwiftUI, iOS SDK, UIKit, Core Data, CloudKit, StoreKit, Combine
Libraries/APIs
iOS Native Libraries, REST APIs, API Development, Firebase iOS SDK, iCloud API, Alamofire
Tools
Xcode, Git, GitLab, TestFlight, GitHub, Microsoft Project, Jenkins, Sketch, Figma, Trello
Paradigms
Model View ViewModel (MVVM), Mobile Development, REST, Unit Testing, Test-driven Development (TDD), Dependency Injection, Modular Design, ITIL, MVC Design, Test Automation, Reactive Programming, Functional Reactive Programming, Model View Presenter (MVP), Testing, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Deployment
Platforms
iOS, Firebase, iCloud, WatchOS
Other
1C:Enterprise, Product Development, Business Process Automation, Mobile App Development, Business Analysis, Business Process Analysis, Negotiation, Algorithms, Code Review, Project Planning, Contract Negotiation, UI Animation, Software, Integration Testing, Architecture, Separation of Concerns (SoC), Amplitude, Localization, Systems Thinking, StoreKit 2, Back-end, Test Scenarios, App Store Acceptance Process, Subscriptions, Monetization, HTTP Request Methods, API Integration, APIs, DLL, MVP Design, Subscription Processing, Web Services, In-app Purchases, UI Testing, GitHub Actions
Storage
Realm, JSON, Firebase Realtime Database
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Informatics and Applied Mathematics
Ufa State Aviation Technical University (USATU) - Ufa, Russia
Certifications
iOS Lead Essentials
Essential Developer Academy
AlgoExpert Certification
https://www.algoexpert.io/
Swift Developer
https://swiftbook.ru
Zen-style Negotiations
https://espadas.ru/
Stress Management and Conflictology
Institute of Public Speaking and Conflictology
System Thinking | via Coursera
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
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