Mikhail Shirkov
Senior Software Engineer at NXT:FWD
Yerevan, Armenia
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Top SchoolMikhail Shirkov is a senior software engineer with 18 years of experience specializing in DevOps, site reliability, and cloud-native architectures, currently working at NXT:FWD from Yerevan. He has driven cost-saving migrations and automation—moving review apps to GKE, automating TLS provisioning, and optimizing autoscaling—while building and operating high-availability data pipelines with ClickHouse, Kafka, and Redis. A startup addict and remote-work proponent, he blends hands-on engineering with on-call leadership and a strong commitment to open source and information freedom. His background spans telecom, FinTech, and video platforms, with early work delivering high-throughput SMS systems and single-handedly architecting solutions for the Central Bank of Russia. Known for pragmatic tooling (Vault, DC/OS, Jenkins-DSL) and a GTD mindset, he often focuses on practical, cost-effective reliability improvements that keep engineering teams productive.
18 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Mathematics at Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics MSU
Russian, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (113)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
comptelfwd/mongodb-sidecar
Oct 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 6 pushes, 6 branches in 8 months
comptelfwd/redash
Apr 2018 - Oct 2018
Make Your Company Data Driven. Connect to any data source, easily visualize and share your data.
Contributions:4 PRs, 11 pushes, 3 branches in 6 months
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