Summary
Egor Kurnikov is a seasoned engineering leader and hands-on CTO with nine years of experience building mobile-first platforms, developer tools, and CI/CD infrastructure across Trust Wallet (Binance), Careem, Yandex and Alibaba. A Kotlin Multiplatform and Android specialist, he led cross-team Gradle/monorepo automation, mobile DevOps and UI-test automation efforts that improved build performance and developer experience at scale. He co-authored and maintains Kaspresso, a popular UI-testing framework (1.9k stars), and regularly speaks and writes about instrumentation and test strategy. Egor combines product-minded engineering—having founded and led end-to-end product delivery at a sailing analytics startup—with deep technical ownership of SDKs, build systems and test frameworks. Known for meticulous, solution-oriented problem solving, he thrives on complex integrations like blockchain SDKs and distributed dependency management. Based in Dubai, he pairs active community engagement with a persistent drive to simplify developer workflows.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Applied mathematics and computer science, Master of Science - MS Applied mathematics and computer science at National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute)
Russian, English