Mykyta Yuzhakov
Senior Software Engineer at Plaid
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMykyta Yuzhakov is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with over a decade of experience and a strong track record leading teams and greenfield projects. He blends product-focused front-end expertise in TypeScript and React with backend skills in Go and Node.js to drive measurable conversion and performance gains across fintech, healthtech, and e-commerce. Notable wins include multi-percent conversion improvements at Plaid and Future Family and a 240% speedup by migrating critical flows at Otrium. As a former founder and CTO, he scaled engineering teams from 0 to 20 and delivered 25+ web and mobile apps for international clients. He emphasizes data-driven A/B testing, feature-flag workflows, and cross-team knowledge sharing to increase velocity and reliability. Pragmatic and hands-on, he shepherds projects from prototyping to production while keeping an eye on observability and developer experience.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
Ukrainian, English
Github Skills (168)
authentication10
javascript10
ld10
typescript10
android10
firebase-cloud-messaging10
resize10
drag-and-drop10
grid10
breakpoints10
react10
firebase-authentication9
firebase-realtime-database9
jwt9
firebase-messaging9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Nikke1/nikke1.github.io
Sep 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:147 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
incu6us/AMBARI
Dec 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:68 pushes in 3 months
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