Mikhail Levin is a seasoned backend engineer and data infrastructure leader with over a decade building exabyte-scale distributed systems, now heading Data Infrastructure at VK. He progressed from hands-on Java development and teaching to technical leadership roles at Yandex and VK, delivering remote-control systems for autonomous robotics, logistics, and large-scale market services. Comfortable across architecture, team leadership, and mentoring, he has a strong academic foundation with a master’s in mathematics and computer science from ITMO University. His background teaching computer science and speaking on webinars signals an ability to translate complex systems into practical guidance for teams and students. Known for operational rigor, he blends low-level engineering discipline with product-minded infrastructure design to support massive data workloads. Based in St. Petersburg, he combines deep distributed-systems expertise with a practical focus on reliability and scale rather than academic novelty.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Магистр технических наук Математика и компьютерные науки, Магистр технических наук Математика и компьютерные науки at ITMO University
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