Alexey
Shchekoldin

Take my own idea all the way to a published product — from hypothesis and first-version scope to a store release and user feedback.

Car owners rarely remember when the oil was last changed or how much the year cost them: the records scatter across notebooks, receipts and memory. The app keeps a full service and expense history and shows the whole cost picture.

• Product hypothesis and first-version scope
• Interface design
• Mobile development
• Store release and user feedback

Remove the daily manual sweep across job boards and the reading of irrelevant postings, leaving only the meaningful choice.

Job hunting means crawling a dozen and a half sources, untangling duplicates and judging fit — which takes longer than the search itself. The system collects postings overnight, scores them against my profile and sends a morning digest containing only those above the bar.

• Designing AI-backed product features
• Reproducibility and quality of LLM judgements
• Processing cost control
• Regression testing of data parsing

Bring the university approach to hands-on engineering projects into the school curriculum — at the scale of an entire city.

A joint programme between the Moscow Department of Education and Science and ITMO University: pre-professional IT classes in city schools. I ran the additive manufacturing and 3D modelling track end to end — curriculum, teaching methods and teacher training.

• Leading a track in a city-scale programme
• Curriculum and teaching methodology
• Teacher training
• Working with a government client

Test whether a mobile robot can be driven by natural head movements rather than a joystick.

A remote robot operator fights two enemies: a narrow communication channel and signal delay, which together destroy both the sense of presence and control precision. Here the operator wears a VR headset showing the robot’s stereo camera feed with an augmented reality layer on top, and the robot mirrors their head turns.

• Framing a research problem
• Computer vision and video stream processing
• Working with latency and constrained bandwidth
• Leading a student team

Turn an abstract number from social media into a physical object that everyone entering the building can see.

A university’s online activity lives inside analytics dashboards and moves nobody. A display in the main building’s lobby shows the follower count of the university’s official page, and a thumbs-up icon lights up with every new like — the number becomes an event happening in front of you.

• Physical interfaces for digital data
• Prototyping and enclosure fabrication
• Electronics assembly
• Working alongside a developer

Cover everyday personal chores with my own services instead of a pile of subscriptions and scattered apps.

Routine spreads across apps: tasks, shopping, notes, keeping an eye on events. A set of bots pulls it all into one messenger — tasks go to a tracker, voice messages become transcribed notes, and a separate service watches for tickets to specific performances and sends a weekly technology digest.

• Designing services around my own scenarios
• Third-party API integrations
• Operations and observability
• Automating routine