Summary
Mykhailo Mykhalov is a seasoned Ruby on Rails developer with 15 years of software experience and over a decade focused on commercial Rails projects. He has delivered backend systems for marketplaces, media platforms, telecom and cloud services, working with Rails (3.2–6.0), PostgreSQL/MySQL, Redis, Sidekiq/Resque, RabbitMQ/Kafka and AWS/Kubernetes. At companies like Blackbird Lab and Verbit.ai he built and scaled features that integrate with large retail ecosystems and real‑time transcription pipelines, and at Mootha/Star he shaped SOA migrations and service architectures for performance-critical systems. He combines hands-on coding, architecture design and team growth—often owning both feature implementation and the underlying system design. Based in Kyiv, he brings pragmatic experience in optimizing data throughput and complex messaging buses, plus a track record of stabilizing and refactoring legacy Rails code into maintainable, scalable services.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics
Английский, Русский, Украинский