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I’m Michael Borisov, a technical lead and polyglot software engineer with 20+ years building embedded, desktop and distributed systems,
microservices and micro-frontends across Web, Windows, Mac and Linux. Comfortable leading distributed and remote teams of
up to 15 engineers. Deep, hands-on grounding in DevOps and continuous-delivery practice — technically and culturally — and a
growing focus on AI engineering: MCP servers, agentic workflows, prompt optimization and AI-assisted development. Pragmatic
and organized, fluent in both business and technical conversations, with a track record of building hyper-effective software
engineering environments.
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Work Experience
Senior Software Engineer (Freelance) at YuzeData
October 1, 2025 - June 1, 2026Led the research and build of a data-insights platform; deployed ClickHouse and Trino on Azure Container Apps via Pulumi; developed an MCP server and reusable AI-validation tooling to accelerate AI-generated code.
Senior Software Engineer (Freelance) at WSC Sports
August 1, 2025 - April 1, 2026Took an early-stage prototype to production-ready system for smart text-to-video retrieval; migrated from monolith to microservices; added caching to reduce latency; integrated asynchronous messaging via Azure Service Bus; built a validation app to audit LLM decision outputs.
Senior Software Engineer (Freelance) at IKEA Systems BV
October 1, 2023 - August 1, 2025Migrated the product from legacy Azure services to Azure Container Apps; reworked the developer experience to run production-like on a dev machine via Docker Compose; strengthened observability with OpenTelemetry and Azure Monitor; integrated a translation workflow with an external provider.
Senior Software Engineer (Freelance) at IKEA Systems BV
December 1, 2022 - September 1, 2023Delivered a complete DevOps solution enabling smooth testing, deployment and observability across the platform; served as interim tech lead for the final months.
Senior Backend Engineer (Freelance) at New10
June 1, 2022 - November 1, 2022Built international capabilities for the lending platform — dynamic, country- and client-specific business rules and UIs — and modernised user management and authentication.
Technical Lead (Freelance) at Priva
November 1, 2021 - May 1, 2022Led a multidisciplinary team building a web-based graphical editor for the building-engineering domain, on a FastAPI (Python), .NET Core and GraphDB backend.
Senior Software Engineer (Freelance) at Baker Hughes
March 1, 2021 - October 1, 2021Built core features for JewelSuite Offset Analyzer (JSOA), integrating offset geology and drilling data to reduce non-productive time in well design.
Software Engineer (Freelance) at Robocorp
September 1, 2020 - January 1, 2022Joined the team building Robocorp Lab as a senior engineer, then stepped up to leadership to drive the initiative forward.
Senior Software Engineer (Freelance) at Robocorp
May 1, 2020 - September 1, 2020Led Robocorp Lab — an Electron + JupyterLab-based IDE for RPA developers; contributed to cross-functional team and product-driven improvements.
Senior Software Engineer (Freelance) at Baker Hughes
August 1, 2019 - April 1, 2020Delivered features for JewelSuite Drilling Engineering (JSDE); set development standards and provided technical guidance to remote teams in India.
Software Engineer (Freelance) at Franx
May 1, 2018 - August 1, 2019Rebuilt a spot/forward FX trading engine and user terminal; automated test-environment provisioning in advance of an Azure migration.
Software Architect & Lead Developer at Webbeat BV
June 1, 2017 - April 1, 2018Led architecture and development across multiple projects; implemented CI/CD with database automation and coaching.
Tech Lead & Scrum Master at Fenestrae BV
May 1, 2016 - May 1, 2017Built cloud-native, event-sourced microservices for HP JetAdvantage (udocx); defined architecture, SDLC, infrastructure, deployments, test automation, and coaching.
Tech Lead & Scrum Master at BlueCielo ECM Solutions
September 1, 2014 - May 1, 2016Led the build and move-to-cloud of the Meridian Cloud product; owned architecture, infrastructure, test automation, CI/CD and technical interviews.
Scrum Master & Senior Software Engineer at Sound of Data
September 1, 2013 - August 1, 2014Implemented a lean-startup Kanban automated DTAP pipeline with unit, integration and functional testing.
Scrum Master & Senior Software Engineer at eVision Industry Software
November 1, 2012 - August 1, 2013Led the transition to Kanban to streamline delivery and enable experimentation.
Development Manager / Team Lead & Software Architect at Visma Severa Oy
July 1, 2011 - September 1, 2012Introduced CI, unit testing and SOLID principles; awarded Innovator of the Year.
Education
Master of Automation at Saint Petersburg State Mining Institute (Technical University)
September 1, 1992 - June 15, 1997Qualifications
Certified Scrum Master
January 1, 2007 - June 29, 2026Industry Experience
Consumer Goods, Education, Financial Services, Media & Entertainment, Software & Internet, Transportation & Logistics, Travel & Hospitality, Professional Services, Retail, Manufacturing
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