Mikhail Udalov is an engineering leader with 13 years of experience designing and delivering large-scale distributed storage and live media systems, currently an Engineering Partner at xAI in London. He has driven real-time storage, performance and cost-optimization projects at X and built resilient financial automation and data pipelines for Amazon Prime Video. At Deutsche Bank he led front-end architecture work, shipping a widely adopted micro-frontends framework and key interoperability tooling for desktop apps. His cross-stack fluency spans Scala, Java, Go, Python, Kubernetes and a raft of distributed systems tech such as Kafka, Zookeeper and RocksDB, enabling pragmatic trade-offs between performance, compliance and operational cost. Colleagues rely on him for technical design across both infrastructure and UI layers, and he has a track record of turning complex legacy workflows into automated, auditable platforms. Based in London, he blends fintech discipline with media-scale engineering and a penchant for solving tricky cross-process communication and storage consistency problems.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer Faculty of Information Systems and Information Security, Engineer Faculty of Information Systems and Information Security at Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace and Instrumentation
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