Summary
Mikhail Bratchikov is a pragmatic Head of IT and infrastructure architect with over 20 years of experience building resilient, geo-distributed systems and leading DevOps transformations. He has a proven track record driving 99.99% uptime, delivering PCI DSS and DORA compliance, and architecting CI/CD and cloud migrations across GCP, AWS, Cloudflare and Hetzner. Hands-on with containers, Kubernetes, Ansible and real-time database replication, he excels at turning startup networks into production-grade, highly available platforms. He combines strategic IT leadership with day-to-day engineering—optimizing high-load databases, monitoring, and disaster recovery while maintaining operational documentation and compliance. Based in Limassol, Cyprus, Mikhail brings rare depth in both legacy virtualization and modern cloud-native toolchains, plus a background in telecom engineering that informs his network-first approach.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Telecommunications, Engineer, Telecommunications, Engineer at Tashkent University of Information Technologies