Michael Yankelev
Solutions Architect at CipherBox
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolMichael Yankelev is a Solutions Architect based in Berlin with 8 years of experience building scalable backend systems and production-grade Web3 applications. He has led teams and shipped multiple dApps to Ethereum Mainnet, built an IPFS-based end-to-end encrypted storage app with KMS integration, and designed a bridging SDK for Polkadot–EVM interoperability. Michael blends full-stack React/TypeScript frontend work with robust Node.js microservices and API integrations (Riot, Twitch, YouTube, TikTok), and has a track record of contributing to open-source blockchain tooling. Now architecting solutions at CipherBox after senior engineering roles at ChainSafe and XBorg, he focuses on practical decentralisation patterns and “money lego” composability in Web3. Unusually for an engineer, he pairs formal training in Information Systems and Accounting Science with early experience managing flight operations, which surfaces in his methodical, risk-aware approach to product delivery.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Information Systems, Bachelor’s Degree, Information Systems at University of the WitwatersrandCrawford College Lonehill
English, Russian, Afrikaans
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (156)
end-to-end-encryption10
synthetic10
ipfs10
cryptocurrency10
javascript10
mining10
api10
sdk10
monorepo10
nest10
server-side10
storage10
typescript10
filecoin10
nodejs10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
carboclan/dapp.honeylemon.market
May 2020 - Oct 2020
Honeylemon mono-repo for synthetic BTC cloud mining contracts built on Ethereum. 🍯🍋⛏🤑
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 684 commits in 5 months
miningmono-repoethereummonoblockchain
ChainSafe/web3-context
Aug 2020 - Sep 2022
A React context implementation of Onboard.js & general utilities
Contributions:9 reviews, 15 commits, 27 PRs in 2 years 1 month
onboardreactreact-contextjavascriptonboard-js
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