Mikhail Makaruk
CPO at Strikerz Inc.
Paphos Municipality, Cyprus
Summary
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Top SchoolMikhail Makaruk is a seasoned product and engineering leader with over 20 years in software development and 14 years of hands-on experience, currently serving as CPO at Strikerz Inc. He has built and led large, distributed engineering organizations—managing 100+ people across DevOps, QA, UX, and product—while driving processes, budgeting, incident and risk management. His background spans GameDev, realtime systems and FinTech, where he launched game studios, created global release and release-management systems at Wargaming, and led the build of a cryptocurrency exchange and bespoke blockchain at Aetsoft. Mikhail combines product ownership and solution architecture with deep technical roots in C++, full-stack and blockchain development, enabling him to bridge R&D, operations and business needs. Trained in organizational change at Stanford GSB, he’s known for rapidly scaling teams (35 hires in <6 months), instituting knowledge-sharing cultures, and making distributed collaboration reliably productive. Based in Cyprus, he brings a founder’s mindset to enterprise-scale delivery—equally fluent in tactical delivery and strategic platform design.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Leading change and organizational renewal, Leading change and organizational renewal at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessBelarusian State University of Informatics and RadioelectronicsProgramming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
makarukudo/nodeigniter
Mar 2012 - Apr 2013
Contributions:3 commits in 1 year
wingaru-dev/wingaru-build
Aug 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:42 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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