Sergei Mikhailov is a seasoned game industry technology leader and founder with over a decade of hands-on experience building and shipping games, gamification platforms, and multiplayer systems. As CEO/CTO of KONTORA GAMES and former CTO/co-founder roles across multiple studios, he combines strategic leadership with day-to-day engineering—delivering end-to-end projects from client requirements and KPIs to art, backend, and live operations. He’s shipped studio-owned titles, ported games across mobile and web, and implemented multiplayer and gamification features that drove engagement up to hundreds of thousands of MAU and met client KPIs on tight timelines. Technically fluent in Unity, Defold, Cocos, Node.js, Docker and modern frontend stacks, he excels at architecting scalable game systems and optimizing client/server performance. Based in Yerevan, he’s equally comfortable leading R&D and diving into code reviews, and has experience working on projects with communities as large as 5 million players.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Higher National Diploma, Information Systems And Technology, Higher National Diploma, Information Systems And Technology at Petrozavodsk State University (PetrSU)
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