Summary
Vlad Danilov is a founder and engineer with 11 years of experience building developer and designer tooling from research through product. He created Optimage, a Mac app that pioneered visually lossless PNG and JPEG compression competitive with Google and Mozilla solutions, and developed novel perceptual metrics, near-optimal heuristics and high-performance encoders (fast LZ77, lossy LZW). He also ships commercial and open-source Sketch/Photoshop plugins, automation workflows and image tooling through Design Plugins, and designs a modular WordPress theme framework with Metatheme. Comfortable across low-level compression algorithms, image processing pipelines and full-stack web systems, he pairs deep technical R&D with polished UX and secure production engineering. Based in St. Petersburg, he combines an electrical engineering background with a knack for shipping small, elegant Mac and web products used by thousands.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Tomsk Polytechnic University
English, Russian