Summary
Michael Sokolov is an AI Technical Program Manager with two decades of tech industry experience and a nine-year focus on delivery management and DevOps across startups and large corporations in Russia and Europe. He builds and leads Platform and Agile Release Trains, having created an 8+8-team Platform ART, organized PI Planning, and headed Communities of Practice to scale DevOps and data tooling. A hands-on founder and former tech lead, he launched an IT services company, private cloud and a small data center that earned RIPE NCC LIR status, showing operational depth beyond program management. Michael blends change management, Scrum/SAFe coaching and principal architecture experience to remove delivery bottlenecks and align teams around product outcomes. He contributes regularly to Medium and studied at the CERN School of Computing, reflecting a curiosity for cutting-edge computing applied to practical delivery. Based in the Kaliningrad area, he thrives at the intersection of technical strategy, platform engineering and organizational transformation.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer science, Computer science at CERN School of Computing
Bachelor's degree, Chemical Technology and Biotechnology, Bachelor's degree, Chemical Technology and Biotechnology at Nizhniy Novgorod State Technical University named after R.Y. Alekseev (NSTU)
English, Russian