Filip Mikina

CEO

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands4 yrs 5 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Expert in automating and optimizing development processes.
  • Proficient in building scalable distributed systems.
  • Mentored teams and led backend initiatives.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer with expertise in Cloud-native and DevOps technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

DevopsInfrastructureBackend DevelopmentTeam LeadershipCloud-native DevelopmentMicroservicesTesting InfrastructureContinuous DeliveryData EngineeringNatural Language ProcessingFeature ImplementationServerless ArchitectureDatabase MigrationInfrastructure AutomationMachine LearningApi DevelopmentMetrics AnalysisFrontend DevelopmentAnalytics

Other Skills

AWSAWS API GatewayAWS DynamoDBAWS LambdaAWS RDSAWS S3AWS SNSAfter EffectsAgile MethodologiesAirflowAlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)Angular 6AngularJSApache Zeppelin

About

To all recruiters: I have a position lined up for 2026 already. Excited about automating and optimizing processes to enhance development speed and reliability. Passionate about building scalable distributed systems and driving innovation through technology. Proficient in Golang, Kubernetes, Bazel, and CI/CD practices, I've been a key player in architecting robust systems and providing scalable solutions. As a Senior Software Engineer, I've mentored teams, championed technology advancements, and led backend initiatives, contributing to, e.g., cloud-native microservices. My journey spans across dynamic environments like Meta (Facebook), Microsoft, Google, and Amazon, where I've honed my skills in diverse technologies and embraced challenges in cloud, automation, and infrastructure. You're welcome to connect with me if you think I would be a good match at your company, or simply if you want to talk.

Experience

4 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 1 mo
Average Tenure
1 yr 4 mos
Current Experience

Career break

Professional development

Feb 2025Present · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Garden leave (Radix Trading)

Radix trading llc

Quantitative Technologist

Jul 2023Jan 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands · On-site

  • Involved in infrastructure/devops/build.
  • Technologies:
  • Python, Bazel (monorepo), TeamCity, Gitlab CI/CD, PostgreSQL, Gerrit, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, Mimir, Docker
PythonBazelTeamCityGitlab CI/CDPostgreSQLGerrit+8

Xebia

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Feb 2023May 2023 · 3 mos · Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

  • Leading a backend team.
  • Scope:
  • Mentored and guided team members, enhancing their technical skills and fostering a collaborative environment
  • Led backend initiatives, fostering cross-team communication, (frontend, product, leadership and design), with a focus on a clear contract between teams via GraphQL contract and integrations
  • Previously: GetInData (acquired)
Go (Programming Language)KubernetesSoftware InfrastructureWeb EngineeringBackend DevelopmentTeam Leadership

Software Engineer

Oct 2022Feb 2023 · 4 mos · Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

  • Working on cloud-native Go backend microservices supporting house appraisal process in the US.
  • Scope:
  • Championed technology advancements, making informed trade-offs and setting up initial designs and proof of concepts}
  • Developed cloud-native microservices in Golang on Kubernetes and GraphQL to support house appraisal processes in the USA (comprehensive test suites with unit and contract testing)
  • Technologies:
  • Go, Bazel (monorepo), Gitlab CI, Kubernetes (GKE), ArgoCD, Terraform, GCP, GraphQL, gRPC, Prometheus, Protobuf, Grafana, Loki
  • Previously: GetInData (acquired)
GoBazelGitlab CIKubernetes (GKE)ArgoCDTerraform+9

Meta

Software Engineer Intern

Jul 2022Sep 2022 · 2 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

  • Working on testing infrastructure for an internal mobile/web development framework.
  • Accomplishments:
  • Reduced overprovisioning of underutilized distributed machines by 55% halving the cost of system's maintenance
  • Sped up continuous delivery from 24hrs to deploy to <2hrs
  • Allowed for safe incident mitigation by rolling back an old version of an artefact in a matter of minutes (instead of a manual process)
  • Implemented a cross-repository CI integration testing framework to test changes from one repository on the other repository
  • Technologies:
  • Hacklang, Buck, React, Typescript, Python, Bash, Bazel

Xebia

Software Engineer

Oct 2021Jun 2022 · 8 mos · Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

  • Involved in: SWE / DE / DevOps work.
  • Project highlights:
  • Designed complete instrumentation and monitoring solution on multicluster Kubernetes deployments using Grafana, Loki and Prometheus to collect and alert on incoming logs and metrics
  • Worked on CI/CD with Gitlab & ArgoCD to enable automated delivery for data and product deliverables
  • Designed data pipelines using DBT and orchestrated them using Airflow
  • Technologies:
  • Python, AWS, DBT, Github, Docker, Kubernetes, jupyter, jupyterlab, postresql, Jinja, Terraform, Airflow, Spark, Terragunt, Gitlab CI, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Helm, Helmfile, Promtail, GCP, GKE, ArgoCD
  • AWS:
  • S3, Lambda (+Docker), Sagemaker, EC2, networking, Redshift, Glue, Step Functions, IAM, SNS, SQS, ECS, Fargate, Cloudwatch (dashboards, metrics, logs, monitoring, alarms), cloudformation, CI/CD with Gitlab & Terraform, MWAA, API Gateway, OpenSearch, EKS,
  • Previously: GetInData (acquired)
HacklangBuckReactTypescriptPythonBash+3

Microsoft

Software Engineer Intern

Jun 2021Aug 2021 · 2 mos · Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

  • Powering localization/translation of Microsoft Office products.
  • Accomplishments:
  • Implemented a solution for persisting correlation vectors in two disjoint systems for reporting end-to-end telemetry
  • Redesigned business intelligence events reported from translations export flows to reduce data loss
  • Technologies:
  • Azure, PowerShell, C#, Cosmos DB
PythonAWSDBTGithubDockerKubernetes+20

Google

Software Engineer Intern

Mar 2021May 2021 · 2 mos · Munich, Bavaria, Germany

  • Working in Google Account team.
  • Accomplishments:
  • Introduced Spanner stack with secondary indexes on free-form text data to support natural language understanding through Google's internal services which improved search results and good visits to Google Account settings page (https://myaccount.google.com/)
  • Drove a new feature implementation through research, planning, implementation, experimentation and documentation phases in an enormous organization in a customer-facing product
  • Technologies:
  • Java, Javascript, Spanner, Bazel, Guice, protobuf

Amazon

Software Development Engineer Intern

Oct 2020Feb 2021 · 4 mos · Luxembourg, Luxembourg

  • Implementing a reliable, scalable, serverless microservice on AWS, with full CI/CD. The project was about diversity and inclusion.
  • Accomplishments:
  • Incorporated full continuous deployment with CDK to enable faster product iterations
  • Built a server-less microservice from the ground up on AWS using Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, AWS S3
  • Technologies:
  • AWS Lambda, AWS API Gateway, AWS DynamoDB, Java, Dagger, CDK, CloudFormation, AWS S3, TypeScript, JavaScript, AWS SNS, AWS RDS, CloudWatch, React, Redux, Sagas
JavaJavascriptSpannerBazelGuiceprotobuf+2

Microsoft

Software Engineer Intern

Jul 2020Oct 2020 · 3 mos · Dublin, Ireland

  • Driving databases migration project from IaaS to PaaS in Azure.
  • Accomplishments:
  • Analyzed, documented and ramped up on the existing infrastructure setup of deployment automation on Azure for IaaS.
  • Designed, documented and delivered a comprehensive infrastructure (PowerShell code) for Azure SQL Managed Instances provisioning automation (ARM templates, Azure PS cmdlets).
  • Redesigned database deployment automation scripts using ARM templates and PowerShell which reduced legacy code complexity.
  • Rewrote a nodejs frontend application to C# using MVC to remove dependencies from the codebase.
  • Technologies:
  • Windows, Azure, PowerShell, C#, Javascript, Azure Automation, Azure Runbooks, Azure Hybrid Worker, Azure Key Vault, Azure networking
AWS LambdaAWS API GatewayAWS DynamoDBJavaDaggerCDK+12

Iterators

2 roles

Project Lead Developer

Mar 2020Apr 2020 · 1 mo

  • Leading a team of three students.
  • Overview:
  • Planning and developing a product for a client in a team.
  • Dividing tasks and work among the team.
  • Helping to organise and optimise the workload.
  • Attending business calls with clients, making weekly reports and quick overviews of accomplishments.
  • Supervising the development of a product and gradually improving the product by implementing various ideas.
ScalaPostgresDockerAWSS3Python+8

Backend Software Engineer

Oct 2019May 2020 · 7 mos

  • Accomplishments:
  • Implemented scalable backend servers.
  • Designed and coded API for dynamic ML model swapping and configuring.
  • Analyzed big data, and designed and overlooked ML models for price prediction.
  • Overview:
  • Built cruds and apis for back-end services.
  • Worked with PostgreSQL.
  • Implemented caching and ML models' fallback services.
  • Technologies:
  • Scala, Postgres, Docker, AWS, S3, Python (nlp, sklearn, matplotplib), Heroku, React, Terraform, Apache Zeppelin, Vault, Weka
WindowsAzurePowerShellC#JavascriptAzure Automation+6

Sumo logic

Software Engineer Intern

Jul 2019Sep 2019 · 2 mos · Warsaw, Masovian District, Poland

  • Metadata metrics team.
  • Accomplishments:
  • Implemented stored scripts functionality and cardinality
  • query calls in open source elastic search scala client
  • Planned, documented and designed external Swagger API for querying metrics metadata (~ 15 endpoints)
  • Implemented auto merge tool for github using github actions and github API
  • Technologies:
  • Elastic Search, Scala, Spring, Swagger, Jenkins

Cosmose, inc.

Software Engineer Intern

Jul 2018Sep 2018 · 2 mos · Warsaw, Masovian District, Poland

  • Autonomous team in order to develop a responsive analytics service with dashboards.
  • Accomplishments:
  • Wrote around 15 000 lines in first 2 months (worked solo on frontend)
  • Designed and implemented a stunning UI, which you can view here (http://bit.ly/cosmoseDesign)
  • Technologies:
  • CSS, HTML, Angular 6, AWS
Elastic SearchScalaSpringSwaggerJenkinsAPI Development+1

Futuramo

2 roles

Motion Graphic Designer

Aug 2017Aug 2017 · 0 mo · Cracow, Małopolskie, Poland

  • Accomplishments:
  • 1. Worked on products promotion videos.
  • 2. Made a bundle promotion video.
CSSHTMLAngular 6AWSFrontend DevelopmentAnalytics

Marketing Intern

Jul 2017Aug 2017 · 1 mo · Cracow, Małopolskie, Poland

  • Accomplishments:
  • 1. Researched the market in order to find suitable clients worldwide.
  • 2. Automated the process above with macros.

Education

University of Warsaw

Master's degree — Computer Science

Oct 2020Jun 2023

University of Warsaw

Bachelor's degree — Computer Science

Jan 2017Jan 2020

The August Witkowski 5th High School

High School Diploma — Computer Science

Jan 2014Jan 2017

British Council

Student — English Language and Literature/Letters

Jan 2016Jan 2017

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