Andrei Rychkov is a seasoned iOS engineer and technology leader with 11 years of experience, now serving as CTO in Dubai while incubating startups as a Founder in Residency. He has a strong track record building high-performance mobile features—shipping audio/video messaging and Stories optimizations at Telegram and VK—and led mobile teams to deliver complex apps like live concerts, AR masks and a pro music studio integrating neural audio models. An active mentor and public speaker, Andrei has won multiple iOS contests and optimization awards and regularly presents on UI, navigation and performance topics. He combines deep low-level engineering (C/C++ algorithm implementations early in his career) with product-minded architecture and rapid prototyping, often tackling tight deadlines and ambitious performance constraints. Colleagues know him for mentoring across junior-to-senior levels and for thriving on complicated technical challenges.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Programming and Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Programming and Information Technology at Saint Petersburg State University
Contributions:6 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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Andrei Rychkov - Chief Technology Officer at Aesty