Summary
Misha Bergal is a pragmatic Staff Engineer with 14 years of experience building production-grade systems across AI, medical devices, and B2C platforms, currently based in the Iowa City–Cedar Rapids area. He moves comfortably between roles as solo contributor, team lead, and principal engineer, shipping backends, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure for GPU-heavy ML workloads as well as regulated Class C medical software. Misha excels at designing deployable ML runtimes, ETL pipelines, and infra-as-code (Pulumi/CDKTF) that balance cost, performance, and operational observability. A generalist by design, he privileges product outcomes and team wellbeing—his credo TEAM == PRODUCT—and brings a hands-on mentorship approach that uplifts engineering peers. Outside work he’s an avid scotch drinker, a small detail that captures his taste for craft and patience.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science at Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology (Technical University)