Michael Hmelov
Lead Software Developer at C.T.Co
Riga, Latvia
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Hmelov is a pragmatic software leader with over 20 years of hands-on software creation and more than a decade in professional development roles, currently serving as Lead Software Developer at C.T.Co in Riga. He architects and delivers enterprise-grade systems across the stack—backend services in Java/Spring and JavaEE, rich web clients in TypeScript/AngularJS and GWT, and complex integrations with databases and external providers. His career includes building loan origination and identification integrations, location and treaty management platforms for insurance, and large-scale vehicle tracking and dispatch systems, showing a strong track record in regulated and high-availability domains. Michael combines deep technical fluency with operational delivery, mentoring teams through multi-year product lifecycles since rejoining C.T.Co in a leadership capacity in 2017. He holds a master's background in automation and computer-aided manufacturing, which informs a systems-oriented approach to designing resilient, data-rich applications. Notably, his experience spans both legacy C++/desktop systems and modern cloud-friendly stacks, enabling pragmatic modernization paths for long-running products.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer-aided manufacturing, Master's degree, Computer-aided manufacturing at Rīgas Tehniskā universitāte (Riga Technical University)Master's degree, Automation Engineer Technology/Technician, Master's degree, Automation Engineer Technology/Technician at Rigas Tehniska Universitate
Github Skills (19)
cucumber-jvm10
cucumber9
api-testing8
java8
dsl8
testing7
git-client6
restful6
bdd6
visual-studio5
windows5
git4
microsoft4
windows-explorer3
gitextensions1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mike-hmelov/homework
Oct 2016 - Aug 2023
Contributions:3 pushes in 6 years 11 months
mike-hmelov/cukes
Sep 2017 - Aug 2020
Cucumber DSL for testing RESTful Web Services
Contributions:2 PRs, 15 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 10 months
cucumber-jvmtestingdslbddrestful
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