Mikhail Solyakov is a software engineering manager with 20+ years in development and over a decade leading teams, currently driving engineering at ROKO Labs from Serbia. He combines deep hands-on .NET expertise (C#, ASP.NET MVC, WebAPI) and backend systems (MS SQL, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ) with proven delivery transformation skills—most notably reorganizing DevOps to cut MTTR from days to hours. He builds product-focused teams using SAFe/Agile practices, TDD and test automation to shrink manual regression from thousands of hours to days, and scales teams rapidly (from MVP to 30 people) while maintaining delivery cadence. A certified SAFe Advanced Scrum Master and experienced people coach, he emphasizes trust, autonomy, and personal development plans to grow talent rather than micromanage it. Fluent in Russian and conversational in English, he prefers shifting organizations from project to product thinking to align engineering with business value.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, 5, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, 5 at Самарский Государственный Технический Университет
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