Summary
Nikita Tarkhov is an iOS engineer with eight years of cross-disciplinary experience, focused for the past three-plus years on mobile development and backend solutions for consumer apps. He brings rare hardware-to-software fluency from roles building IoT and embedded systems, including PCB design and firmware, which informs pragmatic architecture and performance choices in mobile projects. At CleverPumpkin he led mobile architecture, live video streaming and automation workflows using Swift, Objective-C, RxSwift/Combine and CI tooling, and now contributes iOS expertise at Yandex. Organized and self-motivated, he has a track record of owning full-stack deliverables—often building prototypes and project solutions end-to-end—and mentoring junior engineers. Trained as an electrical engineer (MSc) in St. Petersburg, he blends systems-level thinking with hands-on app development to solve complex integration challenges.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University "LETI"