Summary
Mikhail Trifonov is a Principal Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of software engineering experience and a decade-plus track record in backend development, cloud-native architectures, and production readiness at scale. He has led performance, optimization, and observability initiatives at Walmart Global Tech—improving performance metrics by over 40% while driving GraphQL-based service orchestration and robust monitoring for high-traffic e-commerce systems. Proficient in C#, .NET, TypeScript, Azure, Docker, and Kubernetes, he combines deep systems troubleshooting with CI/CD automation to make services resilient and measurable. His background spans full-stack roles from ASP.NET web shops to enterprise-grade SRE, giving him a pragmatic end-to-end view of reliability and delivery. A fast learner who picks up new languages and domains quickly, he is known for turning complex performance problems into clear, sustainable engineering outcomes. Based in the United States, he pairs formal CS training with hands-on leadership in observability and infrastructure effectiveness.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at National Technical University of Ukraine KPI