Summary
Michael Samoylov is a Barcelona-based contract software engineer at MONMAR with 14+ years of backend and platform-scale experience, blending hands-on coding with strategic engineering leadership. He specializes in Go and Python, cloud-native architectures (AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, Kubernetes), observability, and performance optimization, delivering maintainable systems at scale. At Tromzo he helped scale the company toward Series A, established engineering practices, and implemented Datadog observability to align with stakeholders. As Director of Engineering at Delve Partners, he cut AWS infrastructure costs by 50% and built a data warehouse, enabling data-driven decision-making and cost efficiency. His career spans modernizing legacy Go/Python code, GDPR-compliant data enrichment platforms at ESL FACEIT Group, and serverless inventory services for game server clusters at Improbable, reflecting a rare blend of technical depth and product-focused leadership. He holds a BS in Applied Computer Science and an Executive MBA in Strategic Leadership.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Applied Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Applied Computer Science at Togliatti State University
Executive MBA, Strategic Leadership, Executive MBA, Strategic Leadership at Valar Institute
English, Russian, Lithuanian, Italian