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:
- The Complete iOS App Development Guide - Exclusive educational material at the lowest price.
- R[SK] - Learn and build with experts - An application for learning iOS app development.
- F3: Find Friends Anonymous Q&A - Ask anonymously, photo, video.
- R.SK Lab micro-blog - Micro-blog about iOS app development using Swift.
- rsk-lab.com - Corporate web site for R.SK Lab.
- RSKFoundation - Access essential data types and classes to define the base layer of functionality for your app.
- RSKUIKit - Construct and manage a graphical, event-driven user interface for your iOS or tvOS app.
- RSKKeyboardObserver - An object for handling keyboard notifications.
- RSKLabel - A light-weight UILabel subclass that adds the ability to get the index of the character falling under the given point.
- NSAttributedString_RSKSizeThatFits - A light-weight NSAttributedString extension that adds the method to calculate and return the size that best fits the size with the specified width.
- UIImage_RSKImageFromColor - A light-weight UIImage extension that adds methods to create an image from color.
- UIImage_RSKImageFromGradient - A light-weight UIImage extension that adds methods to create an image from gradient.
- RSKSharedChannels - Share any Slack channel on your workspace to another team's workspace.
- 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 - AR game that is worth your attention!
- hadvisor - Your personal health advisor.
- Bloom.fit - Create Balanced Life - Find balance in your life! Get your life back!
(Swift, JavaScript)
Mint - Lead Senior iOS Software Engineer
2015 - Jun 2017
Developed an iPhone application Mint: Online Dating App & Chat. Mint is a FREE dating app for chatting and meeting people nearby.
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 - a parent's application that involves parents in their child’s development;
- Color fruits - teaches differentiation between 3-8 colors;
- Missing Pieces - teaches identification of 3-6 body parts;
- Hungry Hungry Critters - teaches differentiation of objects by its assignments;
- Kiddy Colored Shapes - teaches primary colors and shapes.
Also developed an internal SDK, which is used for the following purposes:
- interaction with the server API;
- access to the local database;
- set a limit on the time of the child's play.
(Objective-C, C++)
Itibo - iOS / Android Software Engineer
2011 - 2012
Developed iPad games such as NoteWorks and See and Hear, an iPhone application Lights All Night 2012 and an Android application Quit Smoking.
(Objective-C, Java, C++)