Summary
Michael Lisovski is a CTO with 12+ years of technology leadership, currently shaping NovaKid’s global ESL platform and previously steering product and engineering at InsurTech and media organisations. He combines hands-on development in Python and modern JavaScript (React/Angular) with deep experience in AWS serverless architectures, big data analytics and applied machine learning. His background includes end-to-end product delivery at RTÉ—launching flagship apps and building core CMS, video encoding and publishing pipelines—demonstrating an unusual blend of front-end design sensibility and backend systems engineering. Known for building high-performance teams, he moves fluidly between strategy, delivery and coding, often stepping into the codebase to unblock critical issues. Based in Portugal, he holds an MSc in Technology Management and brings a pragmatic, product-focused approach to scaling learning and media systems. An early career foundation in engineering and fleet systems gives him a practical systems-thinking perspective that surfaces in platform reliability and operational design.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Technology Management, MSc Technology Management at University College Dublin
MSc Engineering, MSc Engineering at Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University)
Russian