Mike Koltsov
Co-Founder at Popular Poet Theatre
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Koltsov is a software engineer and founder with 12 years of experience building backend, cloud, and security-focused systems, now leading FluxNow to offer a cost-effective alternative to Vercel and Railway. He spent several years at Google improving GCP monitoring and contributing to Gemini infrastructure, blending production-grade reliability with developer velocity improvements. Mike’s background spans vulnerability research and exploit generation at Positive Technologies to full-stack contributions on the popular CodeCombat open-source learning game, where he fixed editor UI, i18n, and backend user schema issues. Equally comfortable in low-level analysis and product-facing features, he leverages Python, algorithms, and cloud platforms to optimize performance and developer experience. Based in Warsaw, he also teaches improv and playback theatre, a creative practice he credits for enhancing team dynamics and conflict resolution. His academic roots in mathematics and big data inform a pragmatic, analytical approach to building scalable, secure systems.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
[unfinished] Master's degree Applied Mathematics and Physics, [unfinished] Master's degree Applied Mathematics and Physics at St. Petersburg Academic University of the Russian Academy of SciencesBig Data, Big Data at Technosphere Mail.ruLomonosov Moscow State University
English, Russian, German, Polish
Github Skills (10)
editors10
javascript10
coffeescript10
editor10
backend9
front-end-development9
back-end-development9
sass9
j8
game-development8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
codecombat/codecombat
Mar 2014 - Mar 2014
Game for learning how to code.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:20 commits in 7 days
Contributions summary:Mike contributed to both the front-end and back-end of the CodeCombat project. They fixed UI issues within the editor, including the positioning and appearance of components and the addition of i18n bindings. They also modified the back-end, specifically the user schema and handler, and implemented arrow scaling logic.
game
ItsLastDay/au-software_design-2017
Feb 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:6 PRs, 88 pushes, 6 branches in 4 months
software-designsemester
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