Michael Kozakov
Software Engineering Manager at Cohere
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolMichael Kozakov is a software engineering manager with 14 years of experience building scalable APIs and developer-facing systems, currently leading the Endpoints team at Cohere to simplify access to powerful language AI. He brings a strong product-to-production mindset from tenure at Snap and Amazon, with deep hands-on experience across backend services, Electron desktop apps, and NLP projects from his time at the University of Toronto. Michael pairs technical leadership with governance experience as a board member of the Kozakov Foundation, and he has a background in teaching core CS courses, reflecting a knack for mentoring and knowledge transfer. His early IT experience in the Israel Defense Forces and diverse academic studies in both Computer Science and German Studies hint at disciplined problem-solving and cross-cultural communication skills.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, German Studies, Bachelor's Degree, German Studies at University of Toronto
English, Hebrew, Russian, German
Github Skills (102)
python10
npm-package10
azure-machine-learning10
javascript10
genetic10
node-api10
api10
sdk10
monorepo10
html10
azure10
electron10
java10
nodejs10
css10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cohere-ai/cohere-typescript
May 2022 - Dec 2022
The Cohere TypeScript SDK
Contributions:24 reviews, 50 commits, 44 PRs in 7 months
sdk-jsapinode-jsnpm-packagejavascript
cohere-ai/cohere-python
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Python Library for Accessing the Cohere API
Contributions:116 reviews, 42 commits, 90 PRs in 8 months
python-libraryapipythonethereumsdk
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