Mikhail Simin
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMikhail Simin is a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft in San Francisco who pairs a PhD-honed analytical approach with more than a decade of hands-on experience across startups and large tech firms. He has led engineering and product-focused teams at Google (Looker) and led full-stack and DevOps efforts at Nextdoor and ASAPP, building automation, A/B testing pipelines, and deployment tooling to speed slow processes. A natural engineering coach and manager, he mentors new hires, runs time-sensitive distributed projects, and emphasizes balancing data-driven analysis with pragmatic hunches to move fast. His background as a founding engineer and game cofounder—where he led a 25-person team and monetized the product—gives him rare product instincts alongside deep operational and infrastructure chops.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
University of South Carolina-Columbia
Russian, German, English
Stackoverflow
8,857reputation
1.2mreached
208answers
87questions
mysql
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matlab
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jquery
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Github Skills (200)
ui-components10
language-design10
browser10
deployer10
nodejs10
deployment-automation10
amazon10
react-wrapper10
in-game10
keras10
monte-carlo-tree-search10
ui-kit10
othello10
meter10
rigid-bodies10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
Nextdoor/alphabot
Jan 2016 - Aug 2018
Open source python bot to chat with Slack and other platforms.
Contributions:20 commits, 12 PRs, 103 pushes in 2 years 6 months
pythonbotchatslack-botplatforms
Nextdoor/zkmonitor
Mar 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:4 commits, 9 PRs, 40 pushes in 11 months
daemonmonitoringzookeeper
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