Milen’s Résumé

Work

• Senior Staff Software Engineer at Meta/Facebook (Sep 2015 — Present)
  • Tech Lead of Spark AR Tooling team
  • Software Engineer on Buck2, Buck, Spark AR Studio, Facebook for iOS, React Native
  • Inventor of “Visual editor for designing augmented-reality effects” (US Patent 10,360,736)
• Founder of Helftone (Feb 2012 — Aug 2015)
  • Helftone is a small software studio making apps for iOS and Mac OS X.
  • Created Monodraw, an advanced ASCII art editor for the Mac.
  • Helftone are the co-creators and software engineers behind the critically-acclaimed Clear, starting from the app’s inception up until July 2014.
• Co-creator & Engineer of Clear (Nov 2011 — July 2014)
  • Responsible for the technical execution of the project. A joint collaboration between myself, Realmac Software and Impending Inc.
• Lead Engineer & Co-Founder of Clean Cut Code (October 2010 — October 2012)
  • Developed Cloud Calendar
  • Co-developed CalendarBar
• Cocoa Intern at Realmac Software (April 2010 — September 2010)
  • Details cannot be disclosed at this time due to confidentiality agreements
• Lead Engineer & Co-Founder of The Cosmic Machine (May 2008 — October 2009)
  • Developed EventBox
  • Acquired by Realmac Software in late 2009
• Software Engineer at Imperial (August 2008 — September 2008)
  • Part of the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program
  • Developed software simulator for embedded devices
• Financial Planner & Analyst at Lloyds TSB (Oct 2006 — July 2007)
  • Part of the Consumer Banking division
  • Responsible for data integrity
• Web Developer at Iroxa Creative Technology (October 2005 — July 2006)
  • Working with Ben on various projects.

Education

• Imperial College London (London, England; 2007 — 2011)
  • Master of Engineer (MEng), First Class Honours, Computer Science
• The Judd School (Kent, England; 2005 — 2006)
  • A-Levels in Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Computing & Physics

Thesis

My thesis explored the idea of symbolically executing distributed software as an approach to finding bugs in complex software and was awarded the Microsoft Research Prize.

Academic Achievements

• Governors’ Prize for best overall result in graduating class (Imperial – 2011)
• Microsoft Research Prize for thesis on symbolic execution (Imperial – 2011)
  
• Olav Beckman Prize for an outstanding Laboratory Group Project (Imperial – 2009)
• Formicary.net Prize for Academic Achievement (Imperial – 2008)
• Morgan Stanley Prize for Academic Achievement (Imperial – 2008)
• Deutsche Bank Prize for Artificial Intelligence Project (Imperial – 2008)
• Further Mathematics Prize (The Judd School – 2006)
• Computing Prize (The Judd School – 2005)