Michael Plehanov is a pragmatic engineering leader with 8+ years building and scaling Node.js backends and mentoring remote teams from his base in Budva, Montenegro. He combines hands-on expertise in TypeScript, MongoDB/Postgres, Redis and Docker with a track record of refactoring legacy systems and delivering MVPs for both startups and large retailers. As a Team Leader he hires, interviews and shapes architecture while still contributing to core backend development and containerized deployments. His background spans high-throughput projects—ad tech data pipelines, retail delivery platforms and chatbot startups—bringing solid experience with microservices, message queues and search. Comfortable in DevOps-adjacent tooling like Salt and Vagrant, he favors environments where learning and project evolution are encouraged. Outside work he balances technical curiosity with interests in sport, travel and science, and prefers roles that let him both teach and grow.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Applied Computer Science in Management, Applied Computer Science in Management at Novosibirsk State Technical University (NSTU)
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