About

Constantine Mars is a Google Cloud Certified Professional Architect, Lead Software Engineer, and practicing Solution Architect with over 15 years of experience in software development and architecture. He has worked onsite with clients as a technical architect, technology advisor, or tech lead for teams of up to 12 people, primarily in the areas of eCommerce, Real Estate, Healthcare, IoT, Automotive, Risk Assessment, eLearning, GameDev, and Hardware emulation. Constantine's latest areas of interest include architecting for Cloud, Mobile, Wearables, and IoT. He has extensive experience in various technology domains such as Mobile (Android native, iOS native, Crossplatform), Wearables (Wear OS, Apple Watch, Pebble), IoT (Raspberry PI, Arduino, Android Things, BLE, Android TV), Backend (Java, Scala, NodeJS, JavaScript), and Cloud Architecture (Certified Professional Google Cloud Architect, AWS, Azure). Constantine has also worked on Desktop platforms such as Mac OS native, Windows native, Cross-platform native with Qt, and Cross-platform native with POSIX/Win32. He is well-versed in Test automation using UIAutomator, XCUITest, Appium, and Mobly. Apart from his technical expertise, Constantine has also led developer communities and meetups, mentored developers and architects, created online courses for developers, and delivered public speaking engagements at global events such as Google I/O, Droidcon San Francisco, Google Developers DevFest, and Google Cloud Sandbox. Currently, Constantine is a Lead Software Engineer at EPAM Systems, where he is responsible for architecting solutions and leading development teams for mobile-first solutions of some of the world's top companies in Healthcare and IoT domains with GCP, AWS, Android/Kotlin/Java, iOS/Swift/Objective-C. He is also leading development and automation teams in Healthcare projects and architecting solutions and leading R&D in the IoT domain. Prior to EPAM Systems, Constantine worked as a Lead Software Engineer at EPAM Systems, where he led pre-sales, discovery, solution architecture activities, and software development teams for some of the top worldwide companies in eCommerce, Real Estate, and Media domains. He has also led software development teams in Real Estate and Educational domains with mobile solutions in Android/Kotlin/Java, iOS/Swift/Objective-C, GCP, AWS/S3/EC2/ELB, and architected mobile-first solutions during pre-sales