Ruslan Skorb

About

Hello there! I'm Ruslan Skorb, an ideas man, an entrepreneur and an applied scientist. I love making beautiful user experiences and am always looking to improve and learn new technologies by building top quality code.

Experience

R.SK Lab - Founder / Lead Senior iOS Software Engineer
Jul 2017 - Present
Developing the following projects:
- R[SK] - Learn and build with experts - An iPhone application for learning native iOS development.
- The Complete iOS App Development Guide - Native iOS app development online course.
- F3: Find Friends Anonymous Q&A - A social discovery iPhone application to make new friends and communicate with existing ones.
- RSKFoundation - An addition to the Foundation framework. Provides: a) protocols that define the roles of objects, b) types of objects that represent changes to a collection of objects.
- RSKCoreGraphics - An addition to the CoreGraphics framework. Provides the type of object that represents a rectangle.
- RSKUIKit - An addition to the UIKit framework. Provides: a) protocols that define the roles of objects, b) the type of object that represents bounds of the view, c) the type of object that represents a frame of the view, d) the type of object that converts layout attributes of the view from .leftToRight user interface layout direction to the specified one.
- RSKImage - The type of object that represents an image. Provides the initializers to create an image with cgImage and cgPath that are created from the specified parameters, in particular, from color, linear gradient, size, corner radii.
- RSKBezierPath - The type of object that represents a Bézier path. RSKBezierPath provides the initializer to create a Bézier path with a rectangular path rounded at the specified corners and with the specified corner radii.
- RSKInteractableLabel - The type of object that represents an interactable label. Provides the ability to get the index of the character falling under the given point, expressed in the label's coordinate system.
- RSKSharedChannels - Swift web app that allows with minimal efforts to share any Slack channel on your workspace to another team's workspace.
- R.SK Lab micro-blog - Micro-blog about iOS app development using Swift.
- rsk-lab.com - Corporate web site for R.SK Lab.
- R.SK Lab Logo - Brand new logo for R.SK Lab.
- R.SK Lab Business Card - Corporate vertical business card for R.SK Lab.
- AR Snake Game - Augmented Reality game for iPhone.
- Bloom.fit - Create Balanced Life - The MVP of a health & fitness iOS application that aims to help people understand themselves and bring calm, wellness and balance to their life.
(Swift, JavaScript)
Mint - Lead Senior iOS Software Engineer
2015 - Jun 2017
Developed an iPhone application for chatting and meeting people nearby Mint: Online Dating App & Chat.
Also developed a bunch of in-house libraries and published them for internal release using CocoaPods:
- MINTActionSheet - an action sheet for iOS with support for custom views.
- MINTAppearanceKit - an iOS library that helps you to customize the appearance of your app.
- MINTAttributedLabel - a light-weight UILabel subclass that supports data detectors and links.
- MINTCircularProgressView - a circular progress view.
- MINTCollectionViewReorderableTripletLayout - a MINTCollectionViewTripletLayout subclass that supports reordering of cells.
- MINTCollectionViewStretchyHeaderLayout - a concrete layout that organizes items into a grid with an optional stretchable header.
- MINTCollectionViewTripletLayout - A concrete layout that organizes items into a triplet with the first large top item.
- MINTHalo - an iOS library that provides a CAShapeLayer subclass that represents a halo and pulsing animation for the halo.
- MINTHierarchySearcher - a small utility class to go through the view controller hierarchy.
- MINTInAppPurchase - a light-weight iOS library for In-App Purchases.
- MINTInstagramSDK - this library allows you to integrate Instagram into your iOS app.
- MINTLocalization - a library that helps change app language without changing device language.
- MINTPageControl - drop-in replacement for UIPageControl that allows the page indicators to be aligned vertically.
- MINTPageViewController - a page view controller that lets the user navigate between pages of content.
- MINTScrollChief - a scroll chief that prevent simultaneous scrolling multiple observing scroll views.
- MINTUnitConversion - an extremely precise unit conversion library.
- MINTWeakTimer - a weak target timer for iOS.
(Objective-C, Swift)
KidMastermind - Senior iOS Software Engineer
2013 - 2014
Developed a parent's application and a set of iPad games for early childhood education, and ported them on Android using Apportable:
- KidMastermind University for Parents - Parent's iPhone application of the educational eService "KidMastermind" that involves parents in their child’s development using smartphone and tablet.
- Color fruits - Educational iPad game based on a playful learning approach and American standards. Designed for ages 12 - 24 months and older. It promotes cognitive awareness. Children begin to identify and differentiate up to 8 colors.
- Missing Pieces - Educational iPad game based on a playful learning approach and American standards. Designed for age 12 - 24 months and older. It promotes cognitive awareness. Children begin to identify and differentiate up to 6 facial parts.
- Hungry Hungry Critters - Educational iPad game based on a learning through play approach and American standards. Develops cognitive skills and milestones through "Organizing objects by their function" for babies age 12 month - 24 months +
- Kiddy Colored Shapes - Educational iPad game based on a learning through play approach and American standards. Develops early numeracy skill and milestone as "Differentiation of items by identifying their shape and color" for tots age 12 month - 24 months +
(Objective-C, C++)
Itibo - iOS / Android Software Engineer
2011 - 2012
Developed NoteWorks- the first iPad game in series of interactive educational games, designed to teach music theory to students, as a form of entertainment. And See and Hear- a fun educational iPad game for child's development from toddlers to preschool kids. Also developed Quit Smoking- a widget application for Android devices, designed to gradually wean users from dependency on cigarettes.
(Objective-C, Java, C++)