Savva Morev is a Development Team Lead with six years of iOS-focused experience at Yandex, recently promoted to lead mobile teams working on Yandex Disk after a progression through Yandex Browser roles. He blends hands-on Swift/Objective-C development with people leadership, shipping UI improvements and stability fixes across complex client apps. An active open-source contributor, he has worked on DivKit, enhancing text rendering, selection interactions, layout wrapping and background image support for a server-driven UI framework. Based in Belgrade and educated at ITMO University, he brings cross-platform product sensibility by coordinating iOS and Android engineers. Savva’s practical knack for subtle UI edge cases and crash fixes reflects a detail-oriented approach that improves user experience at scale.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Student Computer Science, Student Computer Science at ITMO University
DivKit is an open source Server-Driven UI (SDUI) framework. SDUI is a an emerging technique that leverage the server to build the user interfaces of their mobile app
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Contributions:2 releases, 34 commits, 1 tag in 5 months
Contributions summary:Savva primarily focused on fixing and enhancing UI elements within the iOS application, particularly related to text rendering and selection interactions. They addressed issues with text selection in multiline strings and improved the sensitivity of selection controls, including fixing a crash in the slider. Further contributions include implementing a wrap container for layout management and adding support for background images.
Contributions:8 PRs, 29 pushes, 8 branches in 6 days
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