Maksym Kotliar
Staff Software Engineer at MacPaw 🇺🇦
Kyiv, Ukraine
Summary
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Top SchoolMaksym Kotliar is a Staff Software Engineer based in Kyiv with 10 years of iOS/macOS development experience and a track record of progressing from individual contributor to engineering leadership and CTO roles. He currently shapes platform-quality mobile experiences at MacPaw after leading iOS teams and technology at startups and agencies. Maksym pairs hands-on Swift engineering—illustrated by his open-source Bartinter project that dynamically adapts status bar appearance and includes automated UI tests—with mentoring and architectural guidance. Comfortable shipping production features and battery-of-tests polish, he brings both product-minded pragmatism and low-level UI craftsmanship to mobile platforms. Notably, his career shows a pattern of quickly stepping into broader technical leadership while maintaining active code contributions.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute"
Github Skills (5)
swift10
uikit10
ios10
ui-testing9
uitest9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
MaximKotliar/Bartinter
Jun 2018 - Oct 2019
Dynamically changes status bar style depending on content behind it
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:34 commits, 4 PRs, 29 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Maksym primarily focused on developing a Swift-based iOS application, Bartinter, designed to dynamically change the status bar style. The commits show the creation of the core `Bartinter` class, including configuration options, the implementation of status bar appearance updates, and the integration of swizzling for automatic updates. The user also added UI tests to verify the functionality and correct behavior of the application.
statusbartoolbarnavigationbarbackground-servicestatus
MaximKotliar/Parallaxable
Jun 2018 - Apr 2020
Contributions:25 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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