Michael Yakymenko
Software Engineer
Miranda do Corvo, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Yakymenko is a Senior Front-End Engineer with 18+ years of experience delivering responsive, high-performance web applications and leading frontend architecture for diverse domains. He excels at modernizing legacy systems, migrating UIs to React/TypeScript, and decomposing monoliths into microfrontends while maintaining a strong focus on testability and maintainable code. Michael has repeatedly driven cross-resolution responsive designs and advanced CSS strategies—turning embedded third‑party widgets into fully controllable, responsive frontends without backend changes. He pairs hands-on full‑stack skills (Node, GraphQL, Prisma) with UX sensibilities and has led teams through migrations and mentorship programs at companies like Toptal, Cisco, and Yggdrasil. Now based in Portugal, he combines a nomadic, entrepreneurial outlook with a pragmatic engineering approach that prioritizes performance and long-term maintainability. An unusual strength: he frequently reduces delivery risk by blending architecture-level refactors with practical CSS and testing improvements that accelerate release cadence.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Directions: heat power, hydropower, electrical technologies., Diploma, Directions: heat power, hydropower, electrical technologies. at Zaporizhia State Engineering Academy
Ukrainian, Russian, English, Polish, Portuguese
Github Skills (73)
dashboard10
rancher10
webapp10
openstack10
portal10
user-interface10
react10
nodejs-application9
web-application9
static-page9
nodemon9
test-project9
browser8
javascript8
jest-transformer8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mikeyakimenko/mike.yakimenko.me
Feb 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:103 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 10 months
greendoglab/waterfilter
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:31 PRs, 130 pushes, 31 branches in 1 month
markupmarkdown
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