Mikhail Katychev
Principal Software Engineer at Mimic
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMikhail Katychev is a Principal Software Engineer based in Austin with 11 years of experience designing resilient, scalable systems across finance, geospatial, and infosec domains. He is a Rust specialist who has led production services, tooling, and CI/CD for cloud-native stacks and contributed to notable open-source projects such as improvements and feature tests for the popular hex viewer hexyl. Mikhail’s background blends geography and biology with engineering, informing pragmatic approaches to spatial data, Indoor Mapping (IMDF) validations at Apple, and geospatial tooling. He has a track record of shipping contract-testing DSLs, Rust services, and cross-language CLIs that prioritize maintainability and observability. Known for technical leadership and hands-on delivery, he often bridges low-level systems work (WASM, Flatbuffers/Protobuf, gRPC) with developer experience and automation.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Geography Major Biology Minor, Bachelor's degree Geography Major Biology Minor at The University of Texas at Austin
English, Russian, French, Spanish
Github Skills (10)
rust10
command-line10
testing9
binary-data8
automations8
automation8
hex8
toolz7
toolbox7
tooling7
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
sharkdp/hexyl
Apr 2022 - Nov 2022
A command-line hex viewer
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer / Automation EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 7 commits, 4 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Mikhail contributed to the project by implementing changes related to code quality improvements via the `cargo clippy` warnings. They also refactored the code by renaming and restructuring components, specifically altering the "table" to "panel". Furthermore, the user added new functionality around plain display outputs and implemented various tests, suggesting a focus on both functionality and maintainability.
hexcommand-line-toolbinary-dataasciihexadecimal
mkatychev/faker-cli
May 2020 - Oct 2021
Command line interface for the syreclabs.com/go/faker package
Contributions:8 releases, 33 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 5 months
golangcli-appcommand-line-interfacefakercli
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