Michael Podtserkovskii
Software Engineer at Meta
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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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.
11 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 (69)
programming-language10
testing10
http10
proxy10
rest-api10
service-virtualization10
golang10
selenium-webdriver10
hoverfly10
stubbing10
go10
mocking10
simulation10
deriving10
webdriver9
Programming languages (7)
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
selenium-gridseleniumselenium-webdriverwebdriverjsonwire
podtserkovskiy/capital-gains-calculator
Sep 2024 - Oct 2025
UK capital gains tax calculator which supports transaction history from different brokers
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
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