Vlad Shvedov

PythonRuby on RailsJavaScriptTypeScriptAWSDevOpsFlutterApplied NLP/MLAgentic systemsTechnical leadership

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Experience

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Senior Staff Software Engineer

Motorola Solutions · Vancouver, BC

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Engineering Manager, Client Projects

VanHack · Vancouver, BC · remote

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Senior Team Lead & Senior Software Engineer

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.

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AI/ML Team Leader, Natural Language Processing

ProFinda · London, UK · remote

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

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Senior Software Engineer

Toptal · San Francisco, CA · remote

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Branch Director & Senior Team Lead

Helios Technologies · Odesa & Kyiv, Ukraine

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

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Founding Software Engineer

Toptal · San Francisco Bay Area · remote

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

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Senior Software Engineer, Consulting

OmniPragmatic · multiple locations

Independent consulting across products, stacks and time zones.

Personal projects

rhun

rhun.app

A small, fast code editor written in assembly for Windows, Linux and macOS, with a built-in terminal, Git and an agents panel for Claude Code and Codex.

Webrack

synths.pw

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

About me

Born in Odesa, Ukraine. I got online through FidoNet, before the web, and wrote my own BBS software.

My first jobs were about networks, distributed systems and white-hat hacking. Later I started a game studio, then a web development studio.

After that I traveled for a few years: around the world, a long stretch in Bangkok where I made some of my closest hacker friends, then up and down North America. I settled in Canada, and since then I’ve worked with several startups that made it.