Alexei Mikhaylov
Principal Software Engineer at Glia
Tartu, Tartu maakond, Estonia
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Top SchoolAlexei Mikhaylov is a Principal Software Engineer based in Tartu with over 14 years of hands-on experience building resilient, high-throughput backend systems and infrastructure. He has led engineering teams and delivered mission-critical projects at Glia, where he helped design multi-channel communication platforms and AI-augmented operator tools using Elixir, Ruby and cloud-native stacks. His background spans large-scale integrations (Twilio, AWS Lex, IBM Watson, Google Dialogflow, Microsoft Bot Framework), real-time Erlang systems, and data-heavy pipelines that handled thousands of events per second. Comfortable both as a coder and an architect, he blends systems-level thinking with pragmatic delivery—coaching teams, owning deployments on Kubernetes, and instrumenting production with Datadog. Trained originally as a powder metallurgy engineer, he brings a methodical, experimental mindset to software reliability and performance optimization.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Powder metallurgy, Powder metallurgy at Ural State Technical University
English, Russian
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Github Skills (200)
firefox-addon10
terraform10
fixup10
postgresql-extension10
strong-parameters10
terraform-module10
opentofu10
squash10
hashicorp10
github-app10
ecto10
rds10
elixir10
browser-extension10
dsl10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
salemove/tesla_statsd
Nov 2017 - Feb 2025
StatsD middleware for Tesla HTTP client https://hexdocs.pm/tesla_statsd/
Contributions:2 reviews, 7 PRs, 15 pushes in 7 years 4 months
http-clientmiddlewarestatsd
take-five/activerecord-hierarchical_query
Mar 2014 - Nov 2017
Simple DSL for creating recursive queries with ActiveRecord
Contributions:78 commits, 15 PRs, 27 pushes in 3 years 8 months
activerecorddsl
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