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Registration: 04.09.2026

Artem Bobylev

Specialization: Head of Mobile / Team Lead Android
Head of Mobile / Team Lead Android with over 10 years of experience in the mobile industry. I help teams grow, build development processes, and develop talent. — Managing teams of up to 8 people. — Creating and building processes within teams. — Personal background in mobile, backend, and frontend development. — Consistent results in motivating team members to develop. — Working with performance metrics (TTM, SLA, lead time, velocity, etc.). — Experience building apps in the following sectors: Messengers, Fintech, E-commerce, and Stock Trading.
Head of Mobile / Team Lead Android with over 10 years of experience in the mobile industry. I help teams grow, build development processes, and develop talent. — Managing teams of up to 8 people. — Creating and building processes within teams. — Personal background in mobile, backend, and frontend development. — Consistent results in motivating team members to develop. — Working with performance metrics (TTM, SLA, lead time, velocity, etc.). — Experience building apps in the following sectors: Messengers, Fintech, E-commerce, and Stock Trading.

Portfolio

BackIt

Mobile Developer / Tech Lead Cashback Service. ● Designed and developed the mobile application from scratch, taking full ownership of the technical implementation. ● Designed and established the application architecture, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and ease of further development. ● Set up a structured development and release process, including regular and predictable mobile releases. ● Established a consistent release cycle and coordinated the development process to ensure stable and timely delivery. ● Developed a cashback service integrated with AliExpress, allowing users to receive cashback from their purchases.

MTS Link

Responsibilities: ● Development and management of the Android product. ● Coordinating the technical development strategy and technical roadmap. ● Allocation of resources across teams and load balancing. ● Ensuring the implementation of mobile OKRs. ● Building cross-team collaboration with other teams. ● Tracking performance metrics (TTM, SLA, Lead Time, Velocity, crash-free, etc.). Results: ● Implemented a bug management process, analyzing and fixing them in accordance with the SLA. This resulted in increased product stability, faster releases, and enabled us to maintain a weekly release cycle. ● Transitioned the project to a unified modern architecture, which increased the speed and quality of development, simplified the hiring of new employees, and allowed us to raise the CrashFree rating to 99.9%. ● Established the mobile app release process and provided release management for a year. Transitioned from a biweekly to a weekly release cycle. The release success rate reached 95% within a year. ● Led the implementation of tests in the project, which resulted in a 20% increase in codebase coverage and green-lighted regression tests, increasing their overall pass rate from 78% to 96%. ● Developed an automatic app update and event logging feature, which resolved the issue of app relevance among users and improved app observability. ● Monitored feedback and critical issues in the Google Store, as a result prevented several app de-publishing and release cancellations. ● Expanded the team from 5 to 8 people and conducted over 50 interviews for the Android team.

Alfa bank

About the position: ● Managing the fraud monitoring team (participated in developing and evaluating tasks, consulted with developers on implementation issues). ● Supporting the mobile design system (design reviews, prototypes). Results: ● Participated in developing an architectural strategy for migrating the mobile app to MVI. ● Formulated architectural recommendations and created a working prototype that confirmed the viability of the chosen solution. ● Developed an approach for displaying attributes of design system components, which significantly accelerated the design review process.

Skills

Android
Kotlin
Java
MVI
MVVM
MVP
Clean Architecture
Jetpack Compose
Team Leadership
Technical Mentorship
Mobile Development
Android SDK
Room
Git
Agile
Scrum
Jira
Cicerone
C#
.NET
XML
WCF
MSSQL
ASP.NET MVC
OOP
Amplitude
Appsflyer
Confluence
Release Management
Performance Metrics

Work experience

Team Lead Android
07.2023 - 06.2026 |MTS Link
Android, Compose, Socket, MVI
Managing and developing the Android product within MTS Link Chats (an ecosystem of online communications services). Managing: 8 people (Tech Lead, Developers). ● Development and management of the Android product. ● Coordinating the technical development strategy and technical roadmap. ● Allocation of resources across teams / Load balancing. ● Ensuring the implementation of mobile OKRs. ● Building cross-team collaboration with other teams. ● Tracking performance metrics (TTM, SLA, Lead Time, Velocity, crash-free, etc.). ● Implemented a bug management process, analyzing and fixing them in accordance with the SLA. This resulted in increased product stability, faster releases, and enabled us to maintain a weekly release cycle. ● Transitioned the project to a unified modern architecture, which increased the speed and quality of development, simplified the hiring of new employees, and allowed us to raise the CrashFree rating to 99.9 percent. ● Established the mobile app release process and provided release management for a year. Transitioned from a biweekly to a weekly release cycle. The release success rate reached 95% within a year. ● Led the implementation of tests in the project, which resulted in a 20 percent increase in codebase coverage and green-lighted regression tests, increasing their overall pass rate from 78 to 96%. ● Developed an automatic app update and event logging feature, which resolved the issue of app relevance among users and improved app observability. ● Monitored feedback and critical issues in the Google Store, as a result prevented several app de-publishing and release cancellations. ● Expanded the team from 5 to 8 people and conducted over 50 interviews for the Android team.
Tech Lead / Team Lead Android
06.2022 - 04.2023 |Alfa-Bank
Kotlin, MVVM, MVI, MVP, XML, CustomView, SQLite, Cicerone, Groovy
1. Managing the fraud monitoring team (participated in developing and evaluating tasks, consulted with developers on implementation issues). 2. Supporting the mobile design system (design reviews, prototypes). ● Participated in developing an architectural strategy for migrating the mobile app to MVI. Formulated architectural recommendations and created a working prototype that confirmed the viability of the chosen solution. ● Developed an approach for displaying attributes of design system components, which significantly accelerated the design review process.
Tech Lead Android
04.2020 - 02.2022 |Bigdata Technologies
Java, Kotlin, MVP, XML, Room, Cicerone, Amplitude, Appsflyer, Confluence, Jira
Development of an Android app for stock trading, providing technical mentorship to Android developers, and analyzing product metrics. ● Implemented a short video system where I worked through the task from design to production (Storyly). ● Implementing analytics-based changes increased app stability and improved key product metrics (including a 15-25% reduction in crash rates in certain release iterations). ● Developed and implemented custom UI components for complex user scenarios, which allowed for reuse of solutions across multiple screens and reduced UI code duplication by 20-30%.
Head of Mobile Development
08.2018 - 03.2020 |FIX
Kotlin, Java, MVC, MVVM, Room, XNavigation, XML, SPA, Agile, Scrum, Jira
Led a mobile development team of up to 8 people (iOS, Android, QA, Backend) on an e-commerce product (MAU 200k). ● Expanded the mobile development team from 2 to 8 people, establishing hiring and onboarding processes. ● Initiated and implemented the migration of legacy code to a modern architecture, which improved maintainability. As a result, the application reached 99.9% crash-free (from ~97%-98%). ● Released a new version of the product (v2.0) on iOS, which allowed us to launch a new codebase without legacy implementation limitations.
Head of Mobile Development
11.2015 - 07.2018 |Runtime (Moneta.ru)
Java, Android, iOS, Agile, MVVM, Viper, Clean Architecture
Managing in-house mobile development (Android, iOS) for a payment app in the Foodtech domain. Team: 5 people. ● Created and grew the mobile development team internally from 0 to 5 people (Android and iOS developers). ● Released three apps to production: an in-house payment app, a courier delivery app, and a waiter app.
C# (.NET) Developer
10.2014 - 10.2015 |MX-1
C#, .NET, WCF, MSSQL, Git
● Developing a WCF service for conducting trades.
C# (.NET) Developer
08.2013 - 10.2014 |BARS Group
ASP.NET MVC, ExtJS, MSSQL, Postgres, MongoDB, XSLT, Mercurial, TFS
● Developing a budget planning system and a BI system.
Head of Mobile Development
05.2012 - 08.2013 |FIX
Android, WinPhone, C#, ASP.NET, MVC
● Managing the mobile development department and creating a mobile client for the payment system.
Full Stack Developer
01.2001 - 05.2012 |NDA
C#, .NET, WCF, jQuery, ExtJS, Delphi
● Developing various backend and frontend systems (often full-stack). .Net certification, working with WCF and writing desktop applications. Also working with jQuery and ExtJS frameworks. Project development in Delphi.

Educational background

Technical Cybernetics and Computer Science
Till 2004
Kazan National Research Technical University named after A.N. Tupolev

Languages

EnglishUpper IntermediateHebrewElementaryRussianNative