Ilia Mikhailov

CTO

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden19 yrs 3 mos experience

AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Proven track record in leading engineering teams.
Expert in leveraging AI tools for software development.
Strong background in product strategy and architecture.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned fractional CTO with expertise in SaaS and healthcare technology.

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Skills

Core Skills

Interim Management ServicesProduct StrategyEngineering ManagementTechnology LeadershipTechnical AdvisoryFull-stack DevelopmentTeam LeadershipTechnical LeadershipContinuous DeliveryDjangoSystem Architecture

Other Skills

Distributed Team ManagementLaravelPHPScalable ArchitectureStrategic LeadershipPerformance ImprovementArtificial Intelligence (AI)Workload PrioritizationLeadershipEngineering LeadershipEmerging TechnologiesSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Next.jsReact.jsPostgreSQL

About

I join existing teams as a fractional or interim CTO. I lead. I code. I ship product alongside your developers. And I do it using AI coding agents every single day because that's how modern software should be built. I also run workshops. For engineers who tried AI tools, got results they couldn't trust and went back to doing things the old way. AI gave us the most powerful development tools ever created. They just shipped without a manual. So I wrote my own. Built real production systems with Claude Code and Codex until the patterns emerged. Previously CTO, Senior Engineering Manager at Klarna, technical advisor to startups at various stages. If your tech team needs a senior person who actually builds and not just advises, let's talk.

Experience

19 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

11 mos

Current Experience

Qurant företagshälsa

Interim CTO

Aug 2025 – Present · 9 mos · Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden · Hybrid

Brought in to provide senior technical leadership for a 30-person healthtech company. Leading development quality and speed, product strategy, and delivery. Combining hands-on engineering with AI-assisted workflows to accelerate the team's output

Interim Management ServicesProduct StrategyDistributed Team ManagementLaravelPHP

Self-employed

Fractional CTO & AI workshop facilitator

Jun 2025 – Present · 11 mos

Hands-on technical leadership for growing tech companies. I embed with existing teams to lead engineering, improve delivery and build product while teaching how to leverage AI coding tools effectively.
Current and recent work includes:
Leading development quality, product strategy and AI-assisted delivery at a 30-person healthtech company
Technical product roadmap and strategy advisory for startups and scaleups
Developing AI coding workshops for engineering teams

Aiyana

Technical Advisor

Aug 2024 – Dec 2024 · 4 mos · Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden · Remote

Helping development team with technical product roadmap and strategy

Technology LeadershipStrategic LeadershipTechnical AdvisoryTechnical LeadershipProduct StrategyLeadership+2

Klarna

Senior Engineering Manager

Feb 2024 – Jun 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos · Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden · Hybrid

Managed two dev teams and 4 team leads for other teams. Helped migrate Pricerunner systems into Klarna's ecosystem.

Engineering ManagementTechnology LeadershipScalable ArchitectureStrategic LeadershipTechnical LeadershipPerformance Improvement+5

Soultech

Fractional CTO

Dec 2023 – May 2024 · 5 mos · Remote

Helped Soultech speed up their product development

Technology LeadershipScalable ArchitectureNext.jsTechnical LeadershipFull-Stack DevelopmentReact.js+5

Ingrid

CTO & Co-founder

Sep 2015 – Jun 2023 · 7 yrs 9 mos · Stockholm, Sweden

Ingrid is a Swedish startup in the ecomm and logistics space with many of the biggest retail and ecomm brands in Scandinavia as clients.
During my time with the company I:
· Grew the engineering team from 2 to 40
· Helped onboard large strategically important clients
· Was responsible for technical and product roadmap
· Designed and developed initial product architecture
· Strategically outsourced non-core product development
· Took Ingrid from a feature factory to a real product company
· Recruited designers, PMs, engineers and tech support personnel
· Set the company strategy as a member of the management group

Team LeadershipTechnology LeadershipScalable ArchitectureStrategic LeadershipStrategyTechnical Leadership+10

Viaplay

Technical Team Lead

Oct 2013 – Sep 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos · Stockholm, Sweden · On-site

Viaplay is Sweden's largest video streaming service. During my time there I:
· Helped the company transition from on-prem and PHP to AWS and Node.js
· Helped build a microservice architecture powering its new streaming media platform
· Setup a CI delivery team and pipeline that helped teams reduce their deployment time by 50%

Node.jsContinuous DeliveryTechnical LeadershipGoAmazon Web Services (AWS)Continuous Integration+1

Kth

Senior Developer

Sep 2012 – Sep 2013 · 1 yr · Stockholm, Sweden · On-site

Built a social application based on Django (Python) and MongoDB. Application's aim is to provide a communication platform for students, teachers and employees. The system is used by more than 10000 students.

DjangoPythonFlaskMongoDBSystem Architecture

Arbetsmiljöverket

Frontend Engineer

Apr 2011 – Dec 2011 · 8 mos · Stockholm, Sweden

Developed a web application to report work related injuries using ASP.NET MVC and CoffeeScript.

Sll

Akutguiden

Feb 2011 – Mar 2011 · 1 mo

Developed real-time communication platform using Ruby on Rails and MongoDB for healthcare dispatch personel. The application allows people to almost instantly view current load of Stockholm's major emergency units.

Nobina europe ab

Developer

Sep 2009 – Dec 2009 · 3 mos

Arbetsförmedlingen

Developer

Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 · 0 mo

Valtech sweden

Senior Technical Consultant

Dec 2007 – Sep 2013 · 5 yrs 9 mos · Stockholm, Sweden

During my time at Valtech I had the chance to work with both large and small companies in various roles and with different technical stacks such as Python, Java, Ruby, Javascript and .NET. My curiosity and passion for the synergies between business and technology is what drives me.