Basil Shikin is Chief Technology Officer at AppLovin, a leading marketing software company providing developers a powerful set of solutions to grow their businesses. His teams are responsible for supporting the company’s worldwide growth through building secure and highly scalable distributed systems. Basil was one of AppLovin’s early hires, and previously served as Vice President of Engineering, playing a critical role in building and optimizing the AppLovin platform, growing it to support over billions of app downloads. Under Basil’s leadership, AppLovin’s platform has experienced explosive growth, helping to create a richer ecosystem and more games to be played by millions. Before joining AppLovin, Basil was a Senior Software Engineer at DeviceAnywhere.