Software & AI Engineer

Hi, I'm
Mikhail Shytsko

Founder of Seedfast. Solutions & AI Engineer at Slovenská sporiteľňa, based in Bratislava, Slovakia. BS in Computer Science, Technical University of Košice (2025).

Portrait of Mikhail Shytsko
Currently building at
Slovenská sporiteľňaSeedfast
About

Focused on creating value, not just writing code.

Building AI-native systems and the backends behind them: MCP-based agents, LLM pipelines and high-load services, with a strong Spring/JVM background now applied in Kotlin and Python. At Slovenská sporiteľňa, Slovakia's largest retail bank, I build the pipelines and AI tooling behind services serving millions of customers.

FounderSeedfast seedfa.st

An AI-native platform generating large-scale synthetic datasets for compliance-sensitive industries — finance, pharma, medtech. It reads database schemas and produces realistic, relationship-aware data in under 3 minutes. Won 1st place at DDAccelerator Finals as the only Slovak startup competing across 9 countries.

Experience

Where I've shipped.

  • Designed and built an MCP-based AI assistant that summarizes and cross-references lending data spread across several internal banking systems — replacing the manual, multi-system lookup that slows credit review.
  • Architected the AI's data access as a least-privilege, fully auditable MCP tool layer, with strict data minimization and a controlled disable path — safe inside a regulated bank without altering the core approval workflow.
  • Built change-detection that surfaces and explains material changes across products, limits, collateral and client data — so reviewers catch shifts they'd otherwise miss across systems.
  • Delivered a six-figure cost reduction by replacing a legacy workflow with an in-house Kafka pipeline — production-ready, end-to-end from a one-page spec.
  • Cut response times 85% for two high-load services serving 2M+ customers by taking sole ownership of inherited services and driving targeted performance optimizations.
KotlinSpringMCPAzure OpenAIApache KafkaPodmanReact
  • Built an AI system that generates realistic, referentially-correct data for any database — sparing AI, QA and dev teams days of manual data-engineering per dataset, in a single run.
  • Hardened the generation core with automated correctness checks — eliminating a class of silent data-integrity failures.
  • Built custom evaluation frameworks that made the non-deterministic generation pipeline measurable and guarded against regressions — used them to more than double its output quality on held-out data.
  • Added locale-aware generation in any language, so output reads natively for any locale, not just English.
  • Shipped the developer-facing Go CLI and an MCP server — letting engineers and AI agents run Seedfast in production, CI/CD and agentic workflows.
PythonGoLangGraphMCPOpenAILangSmithPostgreSQLAWS
  • Built a secure, EU GDPR-compliant backend from scratch on Spring WebFlux + GCP, encrypting sensitive patient data in real time.
  • Automated a CI/CD pipeline that cut deploys from 12 to 4 minutes.
JavaSpring WebFluxGCPFirestoreFirebase Auth
  • Automated equipment certification, cutting document-certification time ~50%.
  • Built GraalPy trend analytics that accelerated product decisions ~25%.
JavaSpringGraalVM / GraalPyPostgreSQLMongoDBDocker
  • Shipped a secure Spring Boot REST API with OAuth2 / JWT authentication.
  • Cut shift-approval time from 5 days to 2 through schedule optimization.
JavaSpring BootOAuth2 / JWTPostgreSQLRedis
Education

Background & highlights.

01
BS Computer Science · Technical University of Košice
Backend, distributed systems and applied AI. Hackathons with the Argon team — Erste Digital, GymBeam, T-Systems.
Sep 2022 — Jun 2025
02
Founder · HackPN · Student hackathon community
Founded HackPN and ran two hackathons end to end — sponsorship, logistics and judging.
2024 — 2025
03
Top-3 · UVP Startup Finals · with “meetera”
Reached the top three at the University Science Park startup finals with meetera — an app for sparking meaningful, high-value connections at live events.
2025
04
1st place · DDAccelerator Finals · with Seedfast
Won the Intelligent Digital Technology category as the only Slovak startup competing across 9 countries.
2026
LanguagesEnglish · Slovak · Russian · Belarusian
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