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

Ubiquiti - Senior Software Engineer
Jan 2022 - Present
- Improved user experience by implementing a number of changes to the UniFi Protect iOS app, such as streamlining the video buffering process, and reducing the number of steps required to reconnect to the console.
- Accelerated the development process by introducing new architectural approaches into the UniFi Protect project.
- Accelerated the code review process by introducing automatic code formatting into the UniFi Protect project and CI pipeline.
- Improved stability of the UniFi Protect iOS app by increasing the percentage of crash-free users.
- Improved server responsiveness by optimizing UniFi Protect iOS app requests to it.
(Swift)
R.SK Lab - Principal Software Engineer
Jul 2017 - Dec 2021
Built the following projects:
- R[SK] - Learn and build with experts - An application for learning native iOS app development.
- The Complete iOS App Development Guide - An online course.
- RSKFoundation - An addition to the Foundation framework. Provides (a) protocols that define the roles of foundation objects, (b) types of foundation 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 UI objects, (b) the type of UI object that represents bounds of the view, (c) the type of UI object that represents a frame of the view, (d) the type of UI object that converts layout attributes of the view from .leftToRight user interface layout direction to the specified one, (e) the type of UI object that represents changes to a collection of views.
- 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 console app that allows with minimal efforts to share any Slack channel on your workspace to another team's workspace for free.
- R.SK Lab micro-blog - Micro-blog about iOS app development.
- rsk-lab.com - Corporate web site for R.SK Lab.
- R.SK Lab Logo - Logo for R.SK Lab.
- R.SK Lab Business Card - Business card for R.SK Lab.
- AR Snake Game - Classic Snake game in Augmented Reality.
- Bloom.fit - Create Balanced Life - The MVP of an iOS application for bringing balance to people's life.
(Swift, JavaScript)
F3 - Staff Software Engineer
Jul 2017 - Dec 2021
Built the first version of the iPhone application F3: Find Friends Anonymous Q&A from the ground up. Implemented a rich set of new features in subsequent versions. Used by 15M+ people.
(Swift)
Mint - Staff Software Engineer
Mar 2015 - Jun 2017
Built an iPhone application for chatting and meeting people nearby Mint: Online Dating App & Chat.
Also developed 17 in-house iOS frameworks and published them for internal release using CocoaPods:
- MINTActionSheet - an action sheet for iOS with support for custom views.
- MINTAppearanceKit - an iOS framework 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 framework that provides a CAShapeLayer subclass representing a halo and pulsing animation for it.
- MINTHierarchySearcher - a small utility class to go through the view controller hierarchy.
- MINTInAppPurchase - a light-weight iOS framework for In-App Purchases.
- MINTInstagramSDK - this framework allows you to integrate Instagram into your iOS app.
- MINTLocalization - a framework 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 controller 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 Software Engineer
Jan 2013 - Feb 2015
Built a parent's application and 5 educational iPad games for early childhood education, and ported them to 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 - Software Engineer
Jan 2011 - Dec 2012
Built the following projects:
- NoteWorks - the first iPad game in series of interactive educational games, designed to teach music theory to students, as a form of entertainment.
- See and Hear - a fun educational iPad game for child's development from toddlers to preschool kids.
- Quit Smoking - a widget application for Android devices, designed to gradually wean users from dependency on cigarettes.
(Objective-C, Java, C++)