Mikhail Girkin
Principal Engineer at Nitro Software
Dublin, Dublin 1, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolMikhail Girkin is a Principal Engineer based in Dublin with 11+ years building resilient, production-first backend systems across Scala, Clojure, and Python. He has driven platform and search infrastructure at companies like Nitro, Twilio, Gilt and HBC, consistently focusing on fast iteration, automation and measurable outcomes. Deeply experienced in reactive architectures and AWS, he specializes in reasoning about failure modes and designing systems that fail well. Mikhail also brings hands-on leadership from founding a software consultancy and teaching at university, pairing practical delivery with mentoring and knowledge transfer. He favors data-driven decisions, continuous deployment and removing manual toil, and dislikes micromanagement and pointless meetings. A PhD-level thinker with a track record of shipping mission-critical services, he blends academic rigor with pragmatic engineering.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer science, Master, Computer science at Volgograd State Technical UniversityPhD, Optoelectronic systems, PhD, Optoelectronic systems at The National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics
English, Russian
Github Skills (22)
client-library7
aws5
api5
scala5
aws-s34
streaming4
aws-ecr3
sbt-plugin3
sbt3
amazon3
java2
amazon-ecr2
docker2
stun2
github2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mikegirkin/guardrail
Aug 2019 - Oct 2021
Principled code generation from OpenAPI specifications
Contributions:11 pushes in 2 years 3 months
code-generationspecificationsopenapi-generatoropenapi3openapi-specifications
saksdirect/gfc-aws-s3
Jun 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:3 PRs, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 10 months
streamingaws-s3fashionaws
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