Aleksandr Smilianskii
Senior Software Engineer at Perplexity
Belgrade, Central Serbia
Summary
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Top SchoolAleksandr Smilianskii is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience specializing in modern Android development, Kotlin Multiplatform, and modular architectures. He has shipped large-scale consumer and system-level apps—including an in-car navigation solution preinstalled on tens of thousands of vehicles and products with 100M+ downloads—while improving stability and performance for millions of daily users. At Yandex he led cross-functional teams, hiring and mentoring senior engineers, optimized build systems (reducing incremental builds by up to 45%), and drove Android Auto and advertising integrations that materially improved crash rates and revenue. Now based in Belgrade and working at Perplexity, he blends hands-on implementation with systems thinking, from Gradle caching to SDK compliance. A HSE computer science graduate, he pairs low-level C++/Qt experience with a modern Android stack, making him effective across both product and platform engineering.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering at Higher School of Economics
English, Russian, Serbian
Github Skills (13)
kotlin8
async8
kotlin-library7
coroutines7
mvp6
kotlin-multiplatform6
kotlin-coroutines6
architecture4
mvp-architecture3
moxy3
android3
mvp-android2
presenter2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Motoaleks/katas
Sep 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 1 year 11 months
Yorko/hse_DM_project_group1
Sep 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:5 PRs, 32 pushes, 5 branches in 2 months
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