Summary
Mike D is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable systems across startups and Google, currently leading a stealth startup after founding Codelight Lab. He co-founded Harmony, a blockchain protocol aimed at extreme scalability, and served as the first employee/CTO at a high-profile security monitoring startup led by "the father of Android." At Google he led features for Google Assistant sound infrastructure and voice UX, and earlier work includes recommendations and large-scale data systems for Google Play and G+. Comfortable across languages and stacks, Mike has seven-plus years of iOS development experience alongside Java/JS and systems work in Rust/Go-era projects. A former ACM ICPC coach and early programming prodigy, he dropped out of a PhD program to seize startup opportunities and combines research-level thinking with hands-on product delivery. Based in California, he blends deep systems architecture, ML/data experience, and blockchain protocol design with founder-level execution.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Lomonosov Moscow State University
VNU-HCM High School for the Gifted
University of California, Irvine
Russian, Vietnamese, English