Mikhail Podtserkovskii
Software Engineer at Meta
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMikhail Podtserkovskii is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building developer-facing platforms and production services, currently working at Meta after a long tenure at Avito. He specializes in cloud-native PaaS tooling, Go, Python and React, and has delivered features used daily by hundreds of engineers—such as one-button local debugging and a secrets UX that simplified Vault for 600+ applications. His work spans high-throughput backend systems, internal RPC frameworks serving 350+ microservices, and scalable testing infrastructure that replaced Selenium Grid. Comfortable in both startup and large-company contexts, he has led teams, shipped end-to-end systems from scratch, and uses user research and real-time data to drive product decisions. Based in London with a master's in applied mathematics and physics-computer science, he combines deep technical craftsmanship with a focus on developer experience and measurable platform impact.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Applied Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science, Master's degree, Applied Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science at National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute)
English, Russian
Github Skills (90)
programming-language10
testing10
proxy10
interpreter10
linter10
rest-api10
runner10
service-virtualization10
api10
golang10
hoverfly10
stubbing10
go10
mocking10
simulation10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
qa-dev/jsonwire-grid
Jun 2017 - Oct 2018
High-performance scalable implementation of Selenium Grid
Contributions:12 releases, 20 commits, 49 PRs in 1 year 5 months
scalableselenium-webdriverperformanceselenium-gridwebdriver
podtserkovskiy/garnerd
Aug 2020 - Oct 2020
A dynamic cache for docker images in minikube.
Contributions:2 reviews, 10 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 month
dataframesbuildkitdockercacheminikube
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