Sergii Kryvoblotskyi is a seasoned software and research leader who heads AI & Research at MacPaw, driving a multidisciplinary R&D team that blends human-computer interaction, machine learning, software engineering and cybersecurity for the Apple ecosystem. With 13+ years of hands-on experience in Objective-C, Swift, Python and C/C++, he progressed from senior iOS developer to director-level roles, shaping architecture and delivering complex, production-grade solutions. He is an active contributor to open source—helping extend a popular Swift OpenAI client with GPT-4 and cross-platform support—and a recognized participant in Apple’s Security Bug Bounty program with multiple confirmed CVEs. Based in Kyiv, he combines practical product-minded engineering with scientific research practices to translate experimental work into user-facing improvements.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Programming, Master's degree, Computer Programming at Central Ukrainian National Technical University
Swift community driven package for OpenAI public API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:17 releases, 70 reviews, 48 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Sergii focused on enhancing the OpenAI Swift package. They updated the model definitions, added a user parameter to the completion query, and implemented features for platform compatibility, including watchOS and tvOS support. The user also updated tests to improve reliability and added support for GPT-4 models. Further, they updated the minimum Swift version and the overall project build configuration.
Contributions:3 releases, 58 commits, 46 pushes in 1 month
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Sergii Kryvoblotskyi - Director Of AI & Research at MacPaw 🇺🇦