Mykyta

Mykyta Kravtsov
Senior Android Developer / Lead Android Developer | Senior / Lead Mobile Developer | Mobile
Architect | Kotlin, Jetpack Compose | AI-Assisted Engineering

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Languages: Ukrainian, English — technical working proficiency with international teams

Target Roles: Senior Android Developer, Lead Android Developer, Senior Mobile Developer, Lead Mobile
Developer, Android Architect, Mobile Architect

Professional Summary
Senior / Lead Android and Mobile Developer with 10+ years of experience building Android products from
early stages across commerce, payments, creative/editor tools, media workflows, marketplaces, and mobile
platform initiatives. Owned Android architecture for Google Play-listed apps with 5M+ and 100K+
downloads.

Hands-on Mobile Architect with strong production experience in Kotlin, Java, Android SDK, Jetpack
Compose, Coroutines, Flow, Clean Architecture, Modular Architecture, SOLID, Dependency Injection,
Dagger/Hilt, Koin, Google Play Billing, Firebase, CI/CD, unit testing, debugging, performance optimization,
and Google Play release readiness.

Strong match for Senior Android Developer, Lead Android Developer, Senior Mobile Developer, Lead Mobile
Developer, Android Architect, and Mobile Architect roles requiring architecture ownership, modularization,
scalable mobile architecture, complex UI/editor flows, payments, production stability, team mentoring, and
agentic AI-assisted engineering workflows.

Key Achievements
• Owned Android architecture and technical direction across 5 mobile products in the Vista /
Depositphotos ecosystem.
• Led up to 4 Android developers and 2 QA engineers, mentoring Android, QA, and backend engineers
on architecture, delivery quality, release readiness, and mobile-facing delivery.
• Built Android products from early stages, including a Vistaprint Compose-first commerce platform
with 20+ modules and a Crello / VistaCreate editor platform with 10+ modules.
• Helped maintain approximately 99% crash-free users on Crello / VistaCreate and approximately 96–
98% crash-free users on Depositphotos.

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 • Improved build and CI workflows by approximately 2x and drove JUnit-based test coverage tracking
up to 60%.
• Built production Android editor/media infrastructure, including a Vulkan-backed image-processing
library published to JFrog Artifactory.
• Built custom agentic AI-assisted engineering workflows and MCP server tooling for implementation
planning, codebase analysis, code generation, refactoring, and code review quality.

Core Skills
Android Development: Kotlin, Java, Android SDK, Android app lifecycle, Jetpack Compose, Material3,
Android Views, DataBinding, ViewBinding, WorkManager, Room, Paging, Media3/ExoPlayer, deep links,
Google Play Console
Architecture: Clean Architecture, Modular Architecture, SOLID, MVVM, MVP, Redux/UDF, Slack Circuit,
repository/use case patterns, Dependency Injection, Koin, Dagger/Hilt, technical RFCs, architecture reviews,
performance optimization
Networking and Data: Retrofit, OkHttp, Ktor Client, REST APIs, API design, Gson, kotlinx.serialization,
secure storage, local cache, offline queues, retry/backoff, network resilience
Payments and Commerce: Google Play Billing, subscriptions, in-app purchases, purchase validation, cart,
checkout, payment state machines, PayPal/Braintree implementation review
Complex UI and Media: Compose Canvas, custom graphic editor, rich text editing, SVG rendering, image/
video tools, Vulkan filters, transforms, editor performance optimization
Testing, Quality and Release: Gradle Kotlin DSL, Version Catalogs, KSP, KAPT, Detekt, ktlint, Kover, JUnit,
unit test coverage, MockK, Robolectric, R8/ProGuard, Firebase Crashlytics, CI/CD, staged rollouts,
monitoring, rollback planning
AI-Assisted Engineering: custom AI agents, MCP server development, agentic code review workflows,
GitHub Copilot, Atlassian Rovo, Claude, GPT, Gemini, IDE AI agents, code review instructions, code
generation instructions, reusable engineering context
Leadership and Backend-for-Mobile: mentoring, code reviews, architecture standards, cross-team
alignment, discovery/refinement, hiring support, TypeScript, NestJS, OpenAPI, Redis/Valkey, AWS Lambda,
AWS Fargate, SQS/EventBridge, Docker

Professional Experience

Vista — Principal Android Engineer / Mobile Platform Architect

Jul 2023 – Apr 2026

Product scope: Vistaprint, VistaCreate, Depositphotos, and related Android initiatives within the Vista /
Depositphotos ecosystem.

• Owned Android platform direction, architecture decisions, and technical strategy across 5 mobile
products, including continued evolution of Google Play-listed VistaCreate Android with 5M+
downloads and Depositphotos Android with 100K+ downloads.

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 • Served as Android decision-maker and architecture owner across Vista mobile initiatives, running
regular architecture reviews, sprint-level code reviews, and engineering standards alignment.
• Led up to 4 Android developers and 2 QA engineers, mentoring Android, QA, and backend engineers
on architecture, implementation quality, release readiness, and mobile-facing delivery.
• Led architecture and delivery for a Vistaprint Compose-first Android commerce platform built from
scratch with 20+ modules, covering customization, gallery, cart, checkout, payments, authentication,
account, order history, and editor flows.
• Ran a sprint-based release train for Vistaprint Android through internal testing, staged rollout
preparation, monitoring, release checklists, Google Play policy readiness, and rollback planning.
• Designed and implemented Google Play Billing purchase validation flows; reviewed PayPal/Braintree
checkout implementation covering cancellation, backend authorization, return routing, failed
payment, retry, restore, and edge-case handling.
• Improved production readiness with CI/CD quality gates, JUnit-based unit testing, coverage tracking
up to 60%, monitoring preparation, rollout planning, and rollback considerations; improved build
and CI workflows by approximately 2x.
• Co-designed backend-for-mobile orchestration architecture and contributed hands-on
implementation with NestJS, Redis/Valkey, OpenAPI, AWS Fargate, Lambda refresh jobs, SQS/
EventBridge, New Relic, and AWS CDK.
• Built custom agentic AI-assisted engineering workflows and MCP server tooling for implementation
planning, project matching, codebase analysis, refactoring, documentation, code generation, and
code review quality.
• Authored reusable agent instructions for code review and code generation, working with GitHub
Copilot, Atlassian Rovo, Claude, GPT, Gemini, and IDE-based AI agents to improve delivery
workflows.
• Worked with international teams and stakeholders across engineering, QA, product, finance, and
legal, including Google Play policy/review discussions and compliance-related release readiness.

Depositphotos / Crello / VistaCreate — Lead Android Engineer / Mobile Architect

Jul 2016 – Jun 2023

• Started and evolved Android products from early stages, acting as Android architecture owner and
decision-maker for Depositphotos and Crello, later rebranded as VistaCreate.
• Owned Android release workflows, CI/CD improvements, code review practices, unit testing
expectations, and cross-team coordination with product, design, backend, and QA teams; improved
build and CI workflows by approximately 2x.
• Led architecture and delivery for the Crello / VistaCreate Canva-like mobile design editor built with
10+ modules, helping maintain approximately 99% crash-free users.
• Defined reusable editor architecture for advanced design scenarios involving text, images, video,
filters, overlays, project preview, print workflows, and social media preparation.
• Delivered editor capabilities including crop, filters, overlays, video workflows, artboard zoom, move/
resize interactions, text editing, styling, and media preparation flows.
• Built and published a production Vulkan-backed image-processing library to JFrog Artifactory,
replacing deprecated RenderScript-based filtering paths and supporting native HSL/filter
transformations.
• Improved editor stability and performance by fixing memory leaks, ANRs, rendering bottlenecks,
and canvas scalability issues, including early VistaCreate editor limitations around complex projects
with 20+ elements.

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 • Led Android implementation for the Depositphotos stock media app, helping maintain
approximately 96–98% crash-free users across search, gallery, filters, favorites/lightboxes,
downloads, plans, user profile, authentication, and in-app purchase flows.
• Implemented and maintained Google Play Billing for media purchases, including product querying,
billing flow launch, backend receipt validation, consumable purchase processing, restore/pending
purchase handling, and post-purchase downloads.
• Maintained product-critical integrations including Firebase, AppsFlyer, Iterable push notifications,
Auth0/Cimpress authentication, deep links, analytics, billing, Google Play policies, staged rollouts,
monitoring, and engagement systems.

Depositphotos / Cluise — Lead Android Engineer / Mobile Architect

Oct 2014 – Jul 2016

• Owned Android architecture, implementation, and technical direction for a multi-module native
Android product built from early stages.
• Led Android development in an early Java-based Android stack with MVP-style presenters,
dependency injection, Dagger, Retrofit/OkHttp, local storage, and custom UI.
• Built a smart clothing / digital wardrobe and fashion marketplace product with wardrobe creation,
recommendations, social feed, messaging, wishlist, cart, checkout, shipping, seller flows, order
management, payments, push notifications, analytics, crash reporting, and local sync flows.

Additional Background
Enterprise Java / SAP background covering solutions architecture, technical consulting, project planning,
architecture work, and delivery across Enterprise Java, J2EE, WebDynpro, and SAP-related systems.

Education
University of Artificial Intelligence Problems — Software for System Automation (POAS), Qualification:
Engineer

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