Illya Bakurov
Senior Software Engineer and Advisor · Oct 2022 to Oct 2023
I owned hands-on delivery across the native iOS consumer app and a React and Node.js artist platform, while coordinating Android so the product, APIs, and releases stayed aligned across every surface.
feelsmusic.comFeels treated music as a way to communicate, not simply as content to consume. The consumer experience connected native mobile interaction with the systems artists used to manage what appeared on the platform.
A native iOS client, a React and Node.js artist console, content-management workflows, media and artwork tooling, engagement analytics, audio recognition, search, and synchronization all had to behave like one product.
Selected work
I built the native iOS consumer app and the React and Node.js artist platform hands-on. The artist console let creators manage their media, artwork, platform presence, content workflows, and engagement metrics for individual Feels.
I built ShazamKit audio recognition and prototyped machine-learning-assisted search and media synchronization. The work connected media ingestion, metadata, discovery, and the user-facing experience rather than treating them as separate features.
I coordinated the external Android team to keep features, APIs, releases, and product behavior aligned with iOS and web. I helped move engineering in-house, hired engineers into the team, and mentored engineering interns.
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