Vlad Shvedov

Twenty years of building software and leading the teams that build it.

Ruby on RailsJavaScriptTypeScriptPythonAWSDevOpsFlutterApplied NLP/MLAgentic systemsTechnical leadership

Experience

2025 — now

Motorola Solutions · Vancouver, BC

2024 — 2025

VanHack · Vancouver, BC · remote

2016 — 2024

Rottweiler Hardware · Santa Rosa, CA · remote

TastevinApp.com — a digital wine, beer & spirits menu for restaurants: iPad and Android apps with POS integration, QR codes, and TV menus.

2014 — 2016

ProFinda · London, UK · remote

ProFinda.com — a workforce-intelligence platform that matches people to projects by skills and expertise, powered by NLP.

2012 — 2014

Toptal · San Francisco, CA · remote

2011 — 2013

Helios Technologies · Odesa & Kyiv, Ukraine

Directed a branch of twenty software engineers and UI/UX specialists.

2010 — 2011

Toptal · San Francisco Bay Area · remote

Toptal.com — a global network connecting companies with the top 3% of freelance software talent.

2003 — 2010

OmniPragmatic · multiple locations

Independent consulting across products, stacks and time zones.

A modular synth lab in the browser — drag modules, patch cables, twist knobs, share a patch with a link.

A Claude Code plugin that pairs your full-context session with fresh, blind subagents to stress-test ideas, designs, bugs, and diffs.

A cover-forward comics and manga reader for Android, backed by a self-hosted Komga or Kavita server, with always-on offline reading.

A self-hosted, single-user news dashboard whose content is curated by LLM models. Ruby.