Mikhail Chichaykin
Staff Mobile Engineer at Grab
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolMikhail Chichaykin is a staff mobile engineer based in Singapore with two decades of software engineering experience and a decade focused on mobile platforms, specializing in Android (Kotlin/Java) and iOS (Swift) with backend exposure in Go. He architects large-scale migrations and tooling—most notably leading Flutter-to-native migrations that resolved 53,000+ stability issues and cut binary size by 19%—and builds observability and developer-velocity infrastructure used by thousands of internal users. At Grab he shipped Session Inspector, a network observability framework, and an SDK for cross-service session handoff, while driving proactive Android upgrades and AI-assisted testing to reduce incidents and speed releases. A hands-on technical leader and mentor, he combines deep performance and reliability expertise from consumer security products at Kaspersky with experience scaling superapp platforms for millions of users. Notably, his work has directly prevented multi-million-dollar revenue impact through rapid incident resolution and preventative architecture.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Information Technology, Master of Science Information Technology at Taganrog Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science Information Technology and Computer Engineering, Master of Science Information Technology and Computer Engineering at Taganrog State University of Radio Engineering
English, Russian
Github Skills (12)
sqlite8
swift8
java8
rxjava8
reactive-streams6
asynchronous6
observable6
reactive5
jvm5
reactive-extensions5
issue-tracking3
anaconda1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
chichaykin/Recipes
Nov 2017 - Jul 2019
Contributions:8 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
chichaykin/Weather
Feb 2016 - Feb 2020
Contributions:4 PRs, 20 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years
javapythonfor-fun
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