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Hi, I’m Ayan Mukanov, a software engineer with a KAIST degree and a passion for building scalable web and cloud-based systems. I’ve contributed to teams at Booking.com, Flexport, and Bear Robotics, focusing on migrating legacy services to modern microservices, designing reliable data pipelines, and delivering developer-friendly tooling that scales to thousands of users. I enjoy mentoring teammates, improving incident response, and bridging product and engineering. I’m proficient across AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, React, Node.js, and Python, and I love combining software engineering with insights from design to ship polished, user-centric solutions across hospitality, logistics, and robotics domains.…Hi, I’m Ayan Mukanov, a software engineer with a KAIST degree and a passion for building scalable web and cloud-based systems. I’ve contributed to teams at Booking.com, Flexport, and Bear Robotics, focusing on migrating legacy services to modern microservices, designing reliable data pipelines, and delivering developer-friendly tooling that scales to thousands of users. I enjoy mentoring teammates, improving incident response, and bridging product and engineering. I’m proficient across AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, React, Node.js, and Python, and I love combining software engineering with insights from design to ship polished, user-centric solutions across hospitality, logistics, and robotics domains.

Ayan Mukanov

Web Developer, Full Stack Developer, Back-End Developer, +4

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Hi, I’m Ayan Mukanov, a software engineer with a KAIST degree and a passion for building scalable web and cloud-based systems. I’ve contributed to teams at Booking.com, Flexport, and Bear Robotics, focusing on migrating legacy services to modern microservices, designing reliable data pipelines, and delivering developer-friendly tooling that scales to thousands of users. I enjoy mentoring teammates, improving incident response, and bridging product and engineering. I’m proficient across AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, React, Node.js, and Python, and I love combining software engineering with insights from design to ship polished, user-centric solutions across hospitality, logistics, and robotics domains.…Hi, I’m Ayan Mukanov, a software engineer with a KAIST degree and a passion for building scalable web and cloud-based systems. I’ve contributed to teams at Booking.com, Flexport, and Bear Robotics, focusing on migrating legacy services to modern microservices, designing reliable data pipelines, and delivering developer-friendly tooling that scales to thousands of users. I enjoy mentoring teammates, improving incident response, and bridging product and engineering. I’m proficient across AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, React, Node.js, and Python, and I love combining software engineering with insights from design to ship polished, user-centric solutions across hospitality, logistics, and robotics domains.

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Hi, I’m Ayan Mukanov, a software engineer with a KAIST degree and a passion for building scalable web and cloud-based systems. I’ve contributed to teams at Booking.com, Flexport, and Bear Robotics, focusing on migrating legacy services to modern microservices, designing reliable data pipelines, and delivering developer-friendly tooling that scales to thousands of users.

I enjoy mentoring teammates, improving incident response, and bridging product and engineering. I’m proficient across AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, React, Node.js, and Python, and I love combining software engineering with insights from design to ship polished, user-centric solutions across hospitality, logistics, and robotics domains.

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Work Experience

Software Engineer II at Booking.com

June 1, 2024 - Present

Developed software for 8K+ Hotel Customer Service agents as part of a CS Tech team; migrated critical service from Dropwizard to Spring Boot-based microservices (30+ endpoints); managed scaling activities including codebase setup, related SLOs, monitoring (Grafana), alerting (PagerDuty), and automated fail-over & capacity testing; implemented modern service health & alerting practices resulting in ~15% reduction in time spent on P2 alerts and fewer unactionable/false-positive alerts; led migration from Elasticsearch to AWS OpenSearch (20+ TB data) with zero data loss and projected $5,700/month operational savings; modernized core Customer Service workflows via Camunda 8 automations; contributed to mentorship, hiring, onboarding, and incident response.

Software Engineer at Flexport

May 31, 2024 - October 6, 2025

Built end-to-end app for showing shipments’ cost using React and Ruby; introduced unit & integration testing to React codebase with Jest & Testing Library, achieving ~90% coverage; migrated from a team-built Java service that forwards events from AWS Kinesis to an in-house event forwarding service, saving infra costs and simplifying maintenance; designed onboarding process and mentored new hires.

Software Engineer at Bear Robotics

April 1, 2023 - October 6, 2025

Developed a customer-facing full-stack web application to manage 8K+ robots daily; built a data analytics app for 61M+ deliveries; created a pipeline to upload robot time-series data to BigQuery via gRPC and deployed it to 1K+ robots; created automated dashboards for robot status analysis using Looker; refactored React codebase with functional components & TypeScript; implemented remote robot control via WebRTC.

Software Engineer II at Booking.com

June 1, 2024 - Present

Developed software for 8K+ Hotel Customer Service agents; migrated critical services from Dropwizard to Spring Boot-based microservices (30+ endpoints); managed scaling activities, SLOs, monitoring (Grafana), alerting (PagerDuty), and automated fail-over & capacity testing; improved service health & alerting practices, reducing time to resolve P2 alerts; led migration from Elasticsearch to AWS OpenSearch (>20TB data) with zero data loss; modernized Camunda 8 automations; supported mentoring, onboarding, incident response, and documentation.

Software Engineer at Flexport

May 1, 2024 - October 6, 2025

Built end-to-end app for showing shipments’ cost using React and Ruby; introduced unit & integration testing (Jest & Testing Library) achieving ~90% coverage; migrated from team-built Java service to in-house event-forwarding service, reducing infra costs; designed onboarding process and mentored new hires.

Software Engineer at Bear Robotics

April 1, 2023 - October 6, 2025

Developed a customer-facing full-stack web app for managing 8K+ robots daily; built a data analytics app showing robots’ historical data; created a pipeline to upload robot time-series data to BigQuery via gRPC and deployed it to 1K+ robots for KT Corp; created automated dashboards for robot status analysis using Looker; refactored React codebase; implemented remote robot control via WebRTC.