Mikhail Afanasev
Principal Software Engineer at Washington (WA) COVID Vaccine Finder
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolMikhail Afanasev is a Principal Software Engineer based in Oslo with 11 years of experience building polished web experiences and leading frontend teams. He progressed from frontend team lead at JetBrains to senior and now principal roles at Microsoft, bringing deep expertise in shipping production-quality UIs for large-scale platforms. He co-founded extrabite to build tools for animators and designers, blending product-minded engineering with creative tooling and media production experience from Veeam. While contributing to public health tech via the WA COVID Vaccine Finder, he demonstrates a knack for applying web engineering to real-world, high-impact problems. Known for mentoring teams and owning end-to-end delivery, he pairs a systems-level perspective with hands-on frontend craft. His background in engineering economics gives him an uncommon view on balancing technical tradeoffs with product and business priorities.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Economics, Engineer's degree, Economics at Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University
English, Russian
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Github Skills (100)
programming-language10
web-application10
python10
websocket10
chat10
stepic10
collaboration10
javascript10
editor10
zulip10
panels10
creative-cloud10
socket-io10
electron10
typescript10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
StepicOrg/Stepik-Studio
Jan 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:86 commits, 8 PRs, 64 pushes in 6 months
mehanig/Adobe_XMEML_Stepic_Pipeline
Aug 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:27 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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