About

Ten years in Android, all of them at KODE. I joined as a developer in 2016 and spent the next four years just learning the craft — junior to senior, one shipped project at a time. Became Team Lead in 2020, and by 2025 I was leading the whole Android department, 26 people, split across deputies handling day-to-day people management and tech leads running the technical vertical.

Somewhere in there I also moved from Russia to Lisbon, Portugal, and I'm still here. More on how the department actually runs day to day: the Leadership page →

When I'm not building things that beep: anime and film, books, games, and the occasional creative project I never quite finish.

I live with celiac disease. It's shaped a lot of quiet, everyday problem-solving — figuring out what's actually safe to eat somewhere new, tracking down the right specialist, learning to read a menu almost like reading source code. At some point that turned into something bigger than just managing it for myself: I want to make that easier for other adults with celiac too — better information about where's actually safe to eat, support for real treatment research, backing the organizations already doing this work. Still early, honestly — more an intention than an actual project right now. But it's the same instinct as everything else on this page: if the system around you doesn't work well enough, you go build the missing part yourself.