Our team

Fifteen people you can name.
Forty more you can call on.

This is the core of Underfire Labs — the engineers, designers and specialists who run our projects day to day. Every one of them is senior, based in Ukraine or working from Europe, and screened by our CTO before joining a client team. Need a skill nobody here covers? Our wider network of 40+ vetted specialists usually fills the gap within a week.

6 mobile engineers Backend · Frontend ML · AI agents 2 QA engineers Design · SEO Founder · CTO

Showing 15 of 15 core team members

Viacheslav Varusha

Viacheslav Varusha

Founder & SEO
15 yrs experience · Kyiv

Founded the agency and owns its search visibility. Eight years of Objective-C and Swift, six years in cryptography and information protection — and, since the invasion, a NIST 800-53 rev5 programme on Kyiv's city infrastructure. Full profile →

Technical SEOSchema.orgCore Web VitalsSwiftCryptography
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Oleh Danylchenko

CTO & co-founder
14 yrs experience · Kyiv

Runs architecture and technical screening for every project. Former principal engineer on a payments platform serving 4M users. Joins every scoping call personally.

ArchitectureGoKubernetesTech due diligence
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Mykhailo Kravets

Senior iOS engineer
9 yrs experience · Lviv

Leads iOS delivery. Specialises in offline-first architecture, HealthKit and StoreKit subscriptions. Shipped 20+ apps to the App Store.

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Sofiia Bondar

iOS engineer
6 yrs experience · Kyiv

Builds media-heavy interfaces — video, camera pipelines, custom animation. Owns our internal SwiftUI component library.

SwiftAVFoundationMetalXCTest
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Andrii Shevchuk

Senior Android engineer
10 yrs experience · Dnipro

Android lead with a background in logistics and field-service apps. Deep experience with background work, geolocation and low-end device performance.

KotlinComposeCoroutinesHilt
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Iryna Romanenko

Android engineer
7 yrs experience · Kharkiv

Focuses on secure mobile banking and KYC flows: biometrics, certificate pinning, hardware-backed key storage.

KotlinComposeRoomSecurity
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Vitalii Melnyk

Flutter engineer
8 yrs experience · Odesa

Cross-platform specialist for products that need one codebase on iOS, Android and web. Maintains our Flutter starter kit with CI and release automation built in.

FlutterDartRiverpodFirebase
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Dmytro Koval

React Native engineer
6 yrs experience · Warsaw (UA)

Bridges web and mobile teams — shared TypeScript logic, native modules, over-the-air updates for fast release cycles.

React NativeTypeScriptExpoNative modules
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Taras Hnatiuk

Lead backend engineer
11 yrs experience · Kyiv

Designs APIs, event pipelines and multi-tenant data models. Has migrated three monoliths to services without a single day of downtime.

Node.jsGoPostgreSQLKafkaAWS
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Yuliia Lysenko

Lead frontend engineer
9 yrs experience · Lviv

Turns design systems into fast, accessible interfaces. Owns performance budgets, Core Web Vitals and component architecture across our web projects.

ReactNext.jsTypeScripta11y
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Nazar Prokopenko

Machine learning engineer
8 yrs experience · Kyiv

Recommendation systems, demand forecasting and computer vision — from notebook to a monitored production service with retraining pipelines.

PyTorchscikit-learnAirflowMLflow
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Kateryna Hordienko

AI agent developer
6 yrs experience · Kyiv

Builds LLM agents that actually do the work: tool calling, RAG over messy corporate data, guardrails, eval suites and cost control.

Claude APIMCPLangGraphVector DBsEvals
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Roman Sydorenko

QA automation engineer
7 yrs experience · Dnipro

Sets up test pyramids and CI gates on day one: E2E suites for web and mobile, device farms, flake hunting, release checklists.

PlaywrightAppiumpytestGitHub Actions
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Olena Tkachenko

QA engineer (manual & API)
6 yrs experience · Lviv

Exploratory testing, API contract checks and release sign-off. The last person to say "ship it" before anything reaches your users.

PostmanCharlesTestRailAccessibility
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Anna Hrytsenko

Product designer (UX/UI)
9 yrs experience · Kyiv

Takes a product from user research and flows to a shipped design system. Works inside the engineering sprint, not on a separate island.

FigmaDesign systemsPrototypingUser research

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