# Steve Korshakov > Applied AI | Full Stack | Mobile Engineer Location: San Carlos, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/stevekorshakov With over a decade of software engineering experience, I have developed and deployed mobile, web, and desktop applications using React, React Native, GraphQL, and other cutting-edge technologies. I have also built scalable and reliable backend and infrastructure solutions using PostgreSQL, Redis, FoundationDB, WebRTC, and most cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, Digital Ocean, also using a dedicated servers and colocation ## Work Experience ### Founding Engineer @ Bee Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Working mostly as a product engineer applying my skills to build LLM applications solving novel problems. - Applied automatic speech recognition, including diarization, speaker identification - Agentic Systems using mobile platforms - Neural search engine - Personalized assistants ### Staff Software Engineer @ Tact Foundation Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | London, England, United Kingdom I have started a non-profit to build a new programming language for smart contracts, after i built everything i wanted i passed everything to successors. I have built: - New language that compiles to another lower level one - VS Code plugin - Extensive documentation cite - Community I was involved in: - Fundraising for the foundation - Promoting and teaching developers to use a new language ### Staff Software Engineer @ Whales Corp. Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Dubai, United Arab Emirates Co-founded company and built a wide variety of products and services that generated over 20m$ of income. I have a team of a ~3 hand picked engineers and few other non-tech assistants. Company suffered explosive growth and i was responsible to keep infrastructure working and keep company in competitive shape. I have built: - Mobile, Web and Desktop apps using Typescript and React/React Native. - Advanced scalable backend software in Go and Node.js - High performance computing using GPU and FPGA, using OpenCL, CUDA and Verilog. - Resilent infrastructure that required to withstand daily DDOS attacks that was a combination of multiple clouds and dedicated servers, such as: AWS, Google Cloud, Heroku, Digital Ocean and Hetzner. - Various developer libraries and APIs that became popular within ecosystem, which includes Data APIs, unit testing tools, code generation, etc ### Staff Software Engineer @ Openland Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area Co-founded the company which started as data analytics company for governments that pivoted and became social app. We have raised over $2.4m and was part of Y Combinator W18 batch. I was responsible for tech and team performance. Eventually we achieved performance of consistent delivering every week which helped us to iterate quickly. I have built: - Automated cleanup, processing and sync of governmental data and data rich dashboards to visualise results. - Mobile, Web and Desktop consumer apps using React and React Native. - Voice and Video private and group calls using WebRTC and implemented scalable and reliable MediaSoup orchestration. - Backend in Typescript, using Node.js, PostrgreSQL, Redis, FoundationDB. - Cost efficient cloud infrastructure that was deployed to Google Cloud, AWS, Digital Ocean with help of few dedicated Servers and small local colocation in San Francisco. Tech invented: - GraphQL stack for backend and for client which was designed for scalable development. - ORM for FoundationDB (which i presented at Apple's conference about FoundationDB - High performant UI components for React Native including fully custom List rendering using high performance native APIs, high performance animation library, high performance graphql client that offloads a lot of computations to native thread. I was involved in: - Building a stable hiring pipeline - Managing healthy team with help of a VP of Engineering ### Senior Software Engineer @ JetBrains Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation I was invited to participate in a stealth project, that was later released as Spaces which combines social and developer tools for teams in a single product. Our goal was to bootstrap a tech stack that would be suitable for large amount of developers to join the development from other teams. I have built: - Distributed backend using Akka, Cassandra, Postgresql and Redis. - Typed API library that didn't need code generation and allowed fast iterations. - UI components in React using Kotlin.js - A messaging component of a product I was involved in: - Designing of a new state management library for client apps - Helping Kotlin team to improve Kotlin.js - React bindings for Kotlin.js ### Senior Software Engineer @ Actor Messaging Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | St Petersburg, St Petersburg City, Russia Founded this company and was CEO and CTO at the same time. Actor was a company that tried to bring consumer level messaging quality to enterprise world. I have built: - Web and desktop apps - Android and iOS native apps - Codesharing technique using Java, J2OBJC and Google Web Toolkit - Messaging backend in Scala using Akka, Cassandra, Postgresql and Redis. - Implemented private WebRTC voice and video calls I was involved in: - Fundraising of pre-seed money - Hiring most of the team - Bootstrapped open core business mode ### Senior Software Engineer @ Telegram Messenger Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 I was one of the early employees, i have joined it the month Telegram was publicly launched and was responsible in building Android app. I have built: - Native Telegram app for Android - Advanced UI performance components - Assembler level optimisations of image preprocessing - Custom encryption primitive and networking protocols - Opensource bot and API building libraries - I18n, including full RTL support ### Software Engineer @ Extradea Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 Co-founded this company and was responsible for a tech. I have built: - Native mobile apps for major Russian e-commerce vendors - Full cycle (from idea to publishing) no-code mobile app creation tool - Backend in C#, deployed to Azure I was involved in: - Meeting with customers and negotiating tech part of a deal - Decision making as CEO ### Software Engineer @ i-Free Innovations Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 I was part of an innovation department of a i-Free which tried to use new tech to build a products for Android. I was working on: - Building app for buying tickets for trains and plates for Android - Implementing high performance UI component with heavily customised design - Working on 3D AI assistant - Working porting a collection of j2me games to Android ## Education ### Saint Petersburg State University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ex3ndr --- Source: https://flows.cv/stevekorshakov JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/stevekorshakov/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05