Mike Scherbakov
Staff Software Engineer at Google
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMike Scherbakov is a Staff Software Engineer in New York with 15 years building reliable, large-scale systems and teams, currently focused on LLM-driven tooling for SRE. At Google he co-founded an LLM-focused SRE team that shipped an agentic platform and a Chrome extension with 10k+ installs, and led tools that cut on-call time by surfacing useful incident hypotheses and automating postmortem classification. His background ranges from hands-on deployment and automation for OpenStack at Mirantis to running cross-functional engineering organizations and shipping production Python and Go services. He blends deep systems and SRE expertise with practical AI application design, believing AI should be the lens that preserves reliability as systems grow in complexity. Notably, his work emphasizes reducing toil and improving decision-making via automation and document validation, turning observability into actionable engineering leverage. He holds an advanced technical degree in radiophysics and electronics, bringing a rigorous analytical perspective to practical production challenges.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist (equivalent of M.S.), Radiophysics and Electronics (chair of Nonlinear Dynamics), Specialist (equivalent of M.S.), Radiophysics and Electronics (chair of Nonlinear Dynamics) at Saratov State University
English, Russian
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Github Skills (29)
openstack9
fuel9
react8
provisioning8
virtualbox7
opendev6
bare-metal6
bash5
virtualization4
calico4
continuous-integration3
testing3
statistics3
cicd3
openstack-glance2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Mirantis/fuel-docs
Aug 2013 - Dec 2013
Contributions:65 commits in 4 months
mihgen/linkedmap
Jun 2016 - May 2025
Doubly Linked Hash Table implementation in Go
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 9 years 1 month
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