Mikhail Asavkin
Founder at ANT61
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolMikhail Asavkin is a founder and product-driven technology leader with 11 years of experience building startups and scaling product teams across PropTech, classifieds, and SaaS. He has held roles from CTO to acting CEO, shipping mobile and web platforms at scale (notably at Avito and Yandex.Market) and leading end-to-end product and engineering at Skychute and ANT61. His background spans full-stack engineering, embedded satellite software early in his career, and machine reading-powered news analytics, giving him a rare blend of deep technical chops and product intuition. Mikhail focuses on people-first leadership, mentoring teams to continuously learn while delivering measurable business outcomes—examples include rapid operational improvements and profitable turnarounds at inTaxi. He repeatedly takes products from prototype to commercial pivot, balancing pragmatic engineering with customer-driven strategy. Based in Sydney, he combines entrepreneurial grit with hands-on delivery across complex, cross-functional domains.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Applications (MCA), Mathematics and Computer Science, A, Master of Computer Applications (MCA), Mathematics and Computer Science, A at Moscow State Forest University (MSFU)
English, Russian, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (107)
testing10
rest-api10
api10
continuous-integration10
mongodb10
robot10
aws10
graphql-api9
access-control9
lambda9
trigger9
decorators9
developer-tools9
python9
haskell9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
teamintrepid/kl-gulp-tasks
Jun 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:60 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
Skychute/multi-branch-pipeline-aws
Sep 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:5 PRs, 18 pushes, 8 branches in 4 months
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