Mikhail Simin
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMikhail Simin is a Principal Software Engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of experience taking projects from idea to GA across startups and major cloud platforms. He combines hands-on full-stack and DevOps expertise—Python, Django, React, deployment automation, observability—with people leadership gained managing an 8-person Looker engineering team at Google Cloud. His career spans founding roles and technical leadership at startups (HuntStand, ASAPP, Nextdoor) where he made architectural decisions, mentored engineers, and ran time-sensitive cross-functional projects. Now at Microsoft, he brings a rare blend of product-minded execution and engineering management skills, focused on shipping reliable, scalable systems and fostering team psychological safety. An atypical detail: he pairs deep academic credentials (PhD in Computer Science) with practical operational experience, from server automation to monetizing and launching a game with a 25-person team.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of South Carolina
Russian, German, English
Stackoverflow
8,857reputation
1.2mreached
208answers
87questions
mysql
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php
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matlab
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jquery
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scrollbar
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return-value
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Github Skills (200)
ui-components10
language-design10
browser10
deployer10
nodejs10
deployment-automation10
amazon10
react-wrapper10
keras10
monte-carlo-tree-search10
othello10
meter10
rigid-bodies10
physics10
physics-engine10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
Nextdoor/alphabot
Jan 2016 - Aug 2018
Open source python bot to chat with Slack and other platforms.
Contributions:20 commits, 12 PRs, 103 pushes in 2 years 6 months
pythonbotchatslack-botplatforms
Nextdoor/zkmonitor
Mar 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:4 commits, 9 PRs, 40 pushes in 11 months
daemonmonitoringzookeeper
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