Rustem Kakimov

Experience

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  Kaodim

  Sept 2016 - Dec 2016

  Intern

  - Implemented a profile editor using React that averaged 5,000 monthly users in production.- Designed and implemented improvements to the areas of service form that have reduced the average signup time by 10%.- Revamped career pages with a modern CSS layout which drastically improved its usability on mobile devices.

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  Deriv.com

  Feb 2018 - Mar 2021

  Software Developer

  - Initiated and led a charting library project (with a team of 2 engineers) that replaced a third-party charting solution, saving the company 40k USD annually.- Managed a focused team of one engineer and a designer, delivering a complete web app for P2P transactions within 3 months from the start of the project.- Built a trading history explorer using React / Redux that is used by over 150k monthly users.- Created a prototype of an improved interface for a “digits” contract that was later released to production and generated an 82% increase in the number of transactions for that contract in the next term.- Assisted UI/UX team with user research. Integrated Google Tag Manager into the web platform and set up scripts to invite random users from a selected demographic to participate in the study. Show less

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  Mooltik

  Mar 2021 - Aug 2022

  Independent Software Developer

  - Architected and developed a cross-platform mobile app for drawing cartoons and animations with over 100k downloads on PlayStore and 16k monthly active users.- Programmed a state-of-the-art bucket fill algorithm as a C++ library that is 3x faster than open-source alternatives.- Automatically tracked bugs and crashes in production, promptly fixed critical issues, achieving 99.9% user sessions without crashes.- Implemented encoding of user drawn images and an imported soundtrack into an MP4 video file.- Have grown and managed a Discord community with over 2000 members.- The project is open-source and has 180+ stars on Github. Show less

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  TechWings

  Sept 2022 - Jul 2024

  Senior Frontend Developer