Bauman Moscow State Technical University

Eng Leader at AR Experinces

AR Glasses experiences. Helped move experience and platform orgs from prototyping to shipping for the first time, scaled it from dozens to couple hundred people, establish technical and execution strategy across multiple programs and orgs, coordinated and drove execution across hundreds of engineers. Currently leading Augments for Quest 3 (https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/27/metas-augments-place-digital-objects-around-your-physical-space/) as well as unannounced AR glasses programs.

Community Member Experiences, Community Discovery, AR Glasses Experiences. Scaled several organizations from dozens to 100+, ran large x-org programs with 200+ engineers.

Director Of Engineering

Groups product is central to Facebook mission to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. More than 1.4 billion people use Facebook Groups to participate in communities that are meaningful to them: families, health, work, neighborhoods, causes and passions.

I helped lead Groups through FB5 redesign, to refocus Facebook on communities.

I helped grow the Groups org from 0 to 120 engineers, supporting 60 directly. I’m currently supporting teams/managers focused on admin experience, groups inventory and engagement. I supported over ten engineering managers directly or through managers. Hired and grew multiple senior ICs. Helped improve performance management in the org.

In the past I started and lead teams including Groups Server, Groups Communities Growth, Groups R&D, Groups Product Infrastructure, Groups Invites and few others.

Some notable projects that my teams launched: 
- Chats for Groups (https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/11/facebook-groups-chat/)
- Groups for Pages (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10103256906305453)
- Admin Tools, e.g. Insights, Membership Request Filtering (https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/06/our-first-communities-summit-and-new-tools-for-group-admins/)
- Facebook Groups App (https://www.facebook.com/fbfacts/390237724681928)

Engineering Manager

Tech Lead on a number of teams. Mostly focused on JavaScript, Android, full stack development. Notable projects: 
- Started and lead Ads PowerEditor to public launch. It eventually grew into large advertiser interface, and later ads interface altogether (https://www.facebook.com/business/learn/how-power-editor-works)
- Implemented CommonJs dependency system and early JavaScript code transformations (e.g. ECMAScript Classes, React JSX) for Facebook in pre BabelJS/Node.js days
JavaScript/Android engineer on Facebook Phone (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_First)
- Hacked a version of Google Circles during 1 night hackathon (https://techcrunch.com/2011/07/01/facebook-circles/) :)

Software Engineer

- Developed open source client search through Ruby on Rails API Documentation. Originally hosted on railsapp.com with 4k monthly visitors with roughly 1.5k monthly downloads. Later the code was used in official RoR documentation at http://api.rubyonrails.org/ (https://github.com/zzak/sdoc)
- Built a popular open source Twitter Streaming API library in Ruby, that was downloaded more than 1 million times (https://rubygems.org/gems/twitter-stream/versions/0.1.16)
- Built ukijs.org, an early open source JavaScript rendering framework, that had 60 forks and over 800 stars on github (https://github.com/voloko/uki)

Open Source

Open Source Developer

Lead a team covering front end on Yandex Ads, Yandex Advertiser Interface, Yandex Partner Interface, and embeddable ads code for partner sites (similar to AdWords, AdSense).

Yandex

Engineering Team Lead

Full stack engineer at moikrug.ru - Russian professional social network (similar to LinkedIn)

Senior Software Engineer

Implemented pixel perfect, highly interactive web pages (https://www.artlebedev.ru/kolesnikov/)

Vladimir Kolesnikov