CurriculumArtem Smirnov · Software Engineer · Tartu, EE

About

Software engineer, working on Android apps & AOSP since Android 2.3.

Experience

Apps Lead

GrapheneOSTartu, Estonia

Working on apps and other stuff for GrapheneOS.

2026 — Present

Co-founder

ActinisTartu, Estonia

Hacking Android to run where it doesn't belong.

  • Drion — Wine-like Android compatibility layer for Linux; reimplements Android internals to run Android apps without booting real Android in containers or emulators.
  • Cloud Device — virtual Android phones streamed to enterprise users; built the low-latency, low-traffic Skia graphics streaming and input pipelines on WebRTC, MQTT and Protobuf.
  • Chimera — a Native Bridge that runs arm64 Android apps on x86_64 hosts.
2021 — Present

Senior Software Engineer

RidangoTartu, Estonia

Worked on different ticketing and transportation projects, mostly Android.

Jan 2023 — Dec 2024

Senior Android Engineer

VeriffTallinn, Estonia

Worked on Veriff’s identity verification Android SDK.

Apr 2022 — Jan 2023

Android Team Lead

MTS GroupTallinn, Estonia

Led Android development for a custom launcher (1M+ installs) at major CIS-countries telecom provider (80M+ active subscribers).

2020 — 2022

Senior Android Engineer (contract)

Maximum EducationMoscow, Russia

Worked on Maximum Education Android app’s stability and maintainability.

Apr 2020 — Aug 2020

Senior Android Engineer

kasko2go AGZug, Switzerland

Worked on kasko2go Android app – a car insurance solution with built-in driving behavior analysis.

2018 — 2020

Senior Android Engineer

Paragon Software GroupMoscow, Russia

Designed and built an enterprise MDM (Mobile Device Management) product from scratch, deployed on thousands of corporate devices.

2015 — 2018

Android Engineer

Snaappy Inc.Moscow, Russia

Worked on Snaappy social networking application.

2014 — 2015

Android / AOSP Engineer

VenturezLabMoscow, Russia

Android OS customisations and Smart TV platform work.

2012 — 2014

UNIX Engineer

.masterhostMoscow, Russia

Managed large-scale server infrastructure at a leading hosting provider.

2011 — 2012

Projects

Actinis Drion

2025-today

A Wine-like Android compatibility platform for Linux. Allows to run Android apps directly on Linux without containers.

Python library that scrapes Google Play (web version).

Learn languages through customised stories. Django + DRF + Postgres backend, Angular frontend. Previously had a Kotlin/CMP companion app.

Experimental Kotlin + Compose Multiplatform keyboard for the Actinis project.

Cross-platform “find the differences” game. Native Android (Kotlin + Clean Architecture + RxJava) and native iOS (Swift) sharing the same architecture.

Android system optimisation app. Tech-led the product. Wrote an optimised perceptual-hash implementation (DCT port from Objective-C) with JVM-specific tuning.

Publications

  1. Building AOSP on ARM642026
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