Vladimir Shabanov

Standard Chartered Bank (London, UK)

Quantitative developer

Working on a foreign exchange (FX) options pricing service:

• Sped up pricing 2-10 times.
• Transforming a complex legacy into maintainable, extensible, performant and pleasant to work with software.

BazQux

Programmer and founder

Developing an advanced web-based RSS feed reader (bazqux.com).

Doing everything as a one-person business: marketing, customer support, design, frontend, backend, and server administration.

Frontend: Ur/Web + JavaScript, CSS (Stylus), Webpack.
Backend: Haskell + Ur/Web, Riak, ElasticSearch, bare metal Debian servers.

Technical highlights:

• Commercial Haskell app running in production since 2012.
• Complex and highly customizable yet simple looking single-page app.
• High-performance distributed feed fetching.
• Complex and performant filters.
• Wonderful mobile web interface (users find it more convenient than the native mobile apps).
• Magically converting any article to responsive HTML.
• Integration with APIs (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, payment gateways) as well as providing an API for client apps.

Part of the sources: github.com/bazqux/bazqux-urweb

Packages on Hackage:

• fast-tagsoup — fast XML tag soup parser.
• http-conduit-downloader — web-crawler downloader.
• css-syntax — major performance improvement in PR #3.
• http-client — a number of bug fixes and improvements.
• HsOpenSSL — maintainer.

ProSoft

Programmer

Developed various parts of microelectronics IDE: VHDL and CPU core simulator, C debugger, waveform viewer (displays gigabytes of data in real-time), UI. Mostly Haskell with small portions of C/C#/Java.

Delta O Ltd. (Russia)

Programmer

Videoslot games (2D & 3D ones), developed using OCaml, C++, Python, Haskell, OpenGL, GLSL, OpenAL, 3dsmax, flash, Linux.

Hired and worked with remote developers on web and client-server applications (Erlang & Haskell).

Startup

Programmer

Security audio record system (phone/microphone, proprietary hardware) and a lovely records browser.

Tons of audio analysis, UI, plus various stuff such as AVR firmware, USB driver, video recording, import from other similar systems, and installation packages.

Used C++Builder, VC++, IAR C, STL, boost, gcc, emacs.

Moscow State Technical University named after Bauman

M.S., Mechanical Engineer

Moscow Mathematical College

Programmer