Summary
Vasily Ponomarev is a seasoned mobile engineer with 9+ years building fintech and banking products, currently focused on Kotlin-based banking services at Yandex. He transitioned from hands-on iOS development and leadership—having led teams of seven and overseen the Yandex Bank app—to backend-adjacent Kotlin work, bringing a cross-platform perspective to payment systems and SDKs. His track record includes architecting server-driven UI frameworks, modular brokerage and payments SDKs, and maintaining design systems at Alfa-Bank and BCS. A background in computer and information systems security informs his pragmatic approach to robust, production-grade financial software. Though GitHub lists him as an iOS developer, his career shows deliberate expansion into platform-agnostic banking infrastructure and technical leadership.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Московский Институт Электроники и Математики НИУ ВШЭ (МИЭМ НИУ ВШЭ)