Viktor Minchev

Viktor Minchev

Research software engineer at the Snyder Lab, Stanford University · CS student at UC Santa Barbara

I build mobile apps and data pipelines for health research. Most of my time goes to StudySync, the Snyder Lab's platform for wearable and health data studies. Before that I led app development at UCSB's META Lab, and I co-built an AI voice assistant for realtors that won the Pivot Award at the UCSB New Venture Competition.

You can reach me at [email protected], [email protected], or [email protected]. I'm @Viktorinkov on X, viktorinkov on GitHub, and viktor-minchev on LinkedIn.

Work

Snyder Lab, Stanford University

Research Software Engineer · Oct 2025 to present (volunteer through June, then contract)

I work on StudySync, which collects wearable and health data for research studies. I designed the Apple HealthKit ingestion pipeline that grew supported metrics from 17 to over 250, storing more than 100K daily records from 170+ users on a Node.js and TimescaleDB backend. I lead the iOS and Android apps (Swift and Kotlin), which now onboard participants for 6 studies across 3 countries. I also shipped an analytics copilot that turns researchers' natural-language questions into charts through Claude tool-calling on AWS Bedrock, with PHI kept server-side so the model never sees raw health data.

META Lab, UC Santa Barbara

App Development Lead (Research Assistant) · Sep 2024 to Sep 2025

I led development of the Curiosity App for M. Gross and J. Schooler's research on curiosity. The app supported a pilot study with senior adults and a published study on students that was covered in Psychology Today, the SB Independent, and KCBX. I migrated the app from Flutter 2.10 to 3.32, redesigned its Firestore schema, and designed and built 22 new screens.

Jevi, UCSB New Venture Competition

Co-founder and developer · 2025 to 2026

Jevi is an AI voice assistant and CRM for realtors: Swift on iOS, Go on the backend, ReactJS on the frontend, with OpenAI Realtime for voice. After 40 discovery interviews we piloted it with realtors from Village Properties and Goodwyn & Thyne, who held 150+ voice conversations and completed 1,200+ tasks through the assistant. We won the Pivot Award at the UCSB New Venture Competition and were 1 of 8 teams selected for the finals.

Plunge SB

Organizer (volunteer) · Jan 2025 to Jun 2025

I built the registration website for an Isla Vista ocean plunge benefiting the Marine Conservation Network. It served 1,900 visitors and took 331 registrations, and the Stripe integration raised five times more than the previous year.

Skills

Languages
Python, Dart, Swift, C, C++, JavaScript, TypeScript, Kotlin, HTML, CSS, SQL, Go, Java
Frameworks
SwiftUI, Flutter, ReactJS, NextJS, Node.js, Express, Jetpack Compose, Spring Boot, Gin
Databases
Cloud Firestore, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB
Cloud and tools
GCP, Firebase, AWS (EC2, Bedrock), Docker, Unix/Linux, Git/GitHub, Android Studio, Xcode, Figma

Education

University of California, Santa Barbara
B.S. in Computer Science, expected June 2027. Honors Program Scholar, New Venture Program, Dynamo Lab, Dean's Honors. GPA 3.72.

Photos

Viktor Minchev with the Snyder Lab team at the Stanford Medicine booth at PMWC 2026
With the Snyder Lab at the Stanford Medicine booth, PMWC 2026.
Viktor Minchev next to the StudySync poster at PMWC 2026
Next to the StudySync poster at PMWC 2026.

Contact

Email is the fastest way to reach me: [email protected] (personal), [email protected] (Stanford), [email protected] (UCSB).