Daria Mikhailova is a Senior Full Stack Engineer based in Prague with 13 years of hands-on experience building web, blockchain, and distributed systems. She blends backend, frontend, UI/UX design and server administration, having led teams and mentored engineers across startups and open-source projects. As a founding contributor and technical lead at Tokel and a full-stack developer on Parity’s polkadot-js/apps, she has shipped user-facing blockchain tooling and light-node integrations that bridge protocol-level concerns with polished interfaces. Comfortable in remote-first environments, she pairs pragmatic product judgment with strong communication, transparency and compassion. Recently she’s been deepening expertise in cybersecurity, bringing a security-minded lens to system design and developer workflows.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Engineer's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Information Technology
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Czech Technical University in Prague
Engineer's degree, Computer Science, Engineer's degree, Computer Science at Nanyang Technological University
Basic Polkadot/Substrate UI for interacting with a Polkadot and Substrate node. This is the main user-facing application, allowing access to all features available on Substrate chains.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:34 reviews, 73 PRs, 123 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Daria primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Polkadot/Substrate UI, focusing on the "Coretime Chain" overview tab. Their work involved implementing UI components, integrating new features like workplan tables and relay overviews, and improving the user experience through styling, filtering, and translations. They also addressed type-related issues and dependency updates while maintaining code quality through linting and build fixes.
Contributions:7 PRs, 39 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 7 months
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Daria Mikhailova - Senior Software Engineer at Parity Technologies