Mykhailo Kulak
Senior Staff Engineer at Trade Republic
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolMykhailo Kulak is a Senior Staff Engineer based in Berlin with over 16 years in software development and a decade of commercial experience focused on the JVM ecosystem. He combines deep backend expertise with hands-on delivery, having progressed from building mobile MMOs and GPS/social systems to shaping backend platforms at Zalando, OLX Group, Wonder, and Trade Republic. Comfortable leading teams and projects, he also ran full-stack development and project management earlier in his career, bridging product, art, and engineering for game projects. He favors building things that scale—especially online video games—and brings that product-minded curiosity to fintech and marketplace systems. Known for navigating large legacy codebases and shipping reliable production systems, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a strong drive to mentor and improve team delivery. Trained in computer systems and networks in Odessa, he blends a systems-thinking foundation with modern JVM architecture and operational experience.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist, Computer systems and networks, 5.0, Specialist, Computer systems and networks, 5.0 at Odessa National 'I.I. Mecnikov' University
English, Ukrainian, Russian
Github Skills (90)
swagger10
linter10
rest-api10
openapi10
concurrency10
non-blocking10
reactive10
api10
rest10
event-loop10
high-performance10
jvm10
java10
spring-boot10
documentation10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mkulak/kwony
Apr 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:39 commits, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
mkulak/swali
Jun 2018 - Sep 2021
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
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