Artur Antonov
Member Of Technical Staff at xAI
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolArtur Antonov is a Staff-level software engineer based in Palo Alto with a decade of experience building high-performance mobile and ML-driven products. He led technical strategy and hands-on development for Yandex Keyboard, scaling DAU from 5M to 20M+ and shipping on-device RWKV and RNNT features as well as LLM writing tools. Known for pragmatic performance engineering, he fixed critical iOS bugs (including an iOS 15 keyboard deletion issue) and eliminated top crashes via runtime patches, while boosting startup and translation engagement metrics. His open-source contributions include Swift algorithm implementations (segment tree, Union-Find) that reflect a strong algorithms-and-systems mindset. Now at xAI, he combines product-focused leadership with deep mobile and ML engineering to turn research into reliable, user-facing features.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Software engineering, Bachelor's degree, Software engineering at Higher School of Economics
Russian, English
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Github Skills (10)
data-structures10
algorithms10
swift10
segment-tree10
data-structure10
uinavigationcontroller6
xcode6
ios6
uisplitviewcontroller6
ipad6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kodecocodes/swift-algorithm-club
Feb 2016 - Oct 2016
Algorithms and data structures in Swift, with explanations!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 4 PRs, 9 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Artur primarily contributed to the implementation of data structures and algorithms within the repository, focusing on Swift. They added a segment tree implementation, fixed reported issues, and also added a Union-Find data structure. Furthermore, the user refactored the Union-Find implementation by renaming it and making it a struct.
explanationsdata-structuresswiftalgorithms-and-data-structures
goingreen/MetalDigitRecognizer
Apr 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:4 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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