Software Engineer

Hi, I'm Mikhail Shytsko

Passionate software engineer with expertise in building modern web applications. I specialize in creating elegant solutions to complex problems.

Mikhail Shytsko
Professional Summary

About Me

Product-oriented backend developer with deep experience in Spring and passion for building scalable systems that solve real user problems. Adept at applying clean architecture and rapid iteration to achieve meaningful resultsFocused on creating value, not just writing code.

Seedfast
Founder at Seedfast
seedfa.st

Developers waste ~12 hours a week hunting for test data. Seedfast fixes that: one CLI command reads your PostgreSQL schema, understands relationships and constraints, and fills every table with realistic, coherent data in under 3 minutes. No config files, no seed scripts, no boilerplate. As a founder, I'm tackling a $4.7B synthetic data market where 90% of teams still rely on tools built 15+ years ago, shipping AI-native developer tooling with MCP integration, CI/CD pipelines, and cross-platform support out of the box.

Experience

Work Experience

My professional journey as a software engineer

Solutions Engineer, Slovenska Sporitelna, a.s.
July 2025 - Today
Project: Internal banking projects

Built a greenfield Kafka service from a raw business spec, saving the bank over 300K EUR by delivering in-house what was previously outsourced. Took over two high-load microservices from external vendors as the sole engineer on the bank's side, and grew a team from zero to three engineers that doubled delivery throughput within one quarter.

Kotlin
Spring WebFlux
Product Ownership
Identity Verification
Hiring & Mentoring
Software Engineer, The Designery s.r.o.
Apr 2025 - July 2025
Project: Mental Health Startup

Architected and shipped the entire backend for a mental health startup from zero, designing for GDPR compliance from day one. Built real-time encrypted data streams on GCP, led a team of three developers, and automated CI/CD that cut deployment time by 3x.

Spring WebFlux
Google Cloud Platform
GDPR Compliance
Team Lead
Software Engineer, VitSBS
May 2024 - Oct 2024
Project: Automated Certification System & Experimental IoT for Air Quality

Built a certification automation platform that cut document processing time by 50%, eliminating a manual bottleneck that was slowing down the company's core revenue stream. Developed a prototype IoT air quality monitoring system and created reusable internal tooling adopted across multiple projects.

Spring
Process Automation
IoT
Data Analytics
Backend Developer, ArenaPizza
Oct 2023 - Mar 2024
Project: Order Management & Logistics Optimization

Designed and shipped a schedule management system that cut shift approval time from 5 days to 2, and built a QR coupon mailing system that became a key driver of repeat customer visits. Secured all customer-facing APIs with OAuth2 and JWT from the ground up.

Spring Boot
OAuth2 & Security
Redis
Marketing Automation
Education

Education & Additional Information

Bachelor of Computer Science - Technical University of Kosice
September 2022 - June 2025

Personal achievements:

  • Successfully participated in multiple hackathons with Argon team, including Erste DigitalGymBeam and T-Systems Hackathon
  • Founded project HackPN and successfully organised 2 hackathons with it — offline one in the city of Piešťany and an online one with UpliftMedia for Slovak and American students
  • Was qualified for participation in UVP Startup Accelerator with project meetera and got into top 3 startups at UVP Startup Finals
  • Won 1st place at DDAccelerator Finals with Seedfast — representing Slovakia as the only startup from the country and winning 1st place among teams from 9 countries

Languages:

  • Russian (native)
  • Belarussian (native)
  • Slovak (professional working proficiency)
  • English (full professional proficiency — C1 level, IELTS Academic band 8.0)
Projects

Personal Projects

Showcasing my passion for software development through personal projects

JHMS | High-Performance JVM & System Monitoring API
Java API for monitoring JVM and system metrics using GraalVM with virtual threads and native calls, reducing memory and CPU consumption
GraalVM
Project Loom
Project Panama
Endor | IoT Platform for Energy Efficiency
Scalable network of IoT devices and with mobile control application for energy management and energy usage reduction
Spring
Tasmota Firmware
Kotlin
Providentia | AI-Driven Predictive Analytics Suite
A Java-based real-time predictive analytics platform that uses machine learning algorithms and optimised computation to improve prediction accuracy
Deeplearning4j
Apache Flink
Apache Cassandra
Pulse | Retail Analytics & Inventory Management
A sales analytics and inventory management platform for retailers that improves demand forecasting accuracy and reduces excess inventory
Spring
Apache Tomcat
PostgreSQL
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