Summary
Stan Sidel is a founder, product-minded iOS developer and engineering leader with 12 years of experience building mobile products, launching teams, and improving conversion through user research and A/B testing. He has led iOS teams and managed hiring, performance reviews and retention while shipping features across UI, concurrency and payments stacks at scale. As founder of Plussios he launched an MVP with bank acquiring, grew landing conversion from 10% to 29% via 30 user interviews and is now building cross-platform apps in Flutter. His background spans machine learning work at Yandex, improving weather predictions, to hands-on product delivery—raising Yandex.Trains from 1 to 4.9 stars and mentoring interns who became full-time hires. Based in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Stan blends entrepreneurial grit with a rare mix of product, backend (Rails/Ember) and mobile engineering experience.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Business/Managerial Economics, A, Engineer's degree, Business/Managerial Economics, A at South Ural State University (SUSU)
English, Russian