Summary
Mykhaylo Kolesnik is a founder and principal consultant with nine years of hands-on experience building resilient infrastructure and taking high-risk systems to production. He specializes in bridging the gap between prototype AI agents and production-grade delivery—implementing evals in CI, observability across tool calls, rollback discipline, and cost controls—while owning cross-stack delivery from agent design to Terraform/Kubernetes. His background includes zero-downtime infrastructure for DeFi protocols (solo ops for a $3M TVL protocol across 25 GKE nodes and 100+ microservices) and rapid mainnet launches as a CTO, demonstrating both operational rigor and speed. Past roles span warehouse automation at Takeoff, platform engineering across five product teams, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines from hour-long runs to under 15 minutes. Based in Cascais, Portugal, he also builds payment infrastructure for Solana and active projects like Cascade Protocol, combining deep production ops experience with a focus on agentic AI systems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
Ukrainian, English