Summary
Mihail Milev is a senior software engineer with 12+ years building scalable web and microservice architectures across PHP and Python stacks, currently contributing at FreshBooks and freelancing via Toptal. He evolved from front-end HTML/CSS/JS roots into backend performance tuning, high-load microservices, and cloud-native systems using Symfony, Django, Google Cloud, Redis and PostgreSQL. Mihail has hands-on experience designing and shipping two production DNS-focused microservices and a DNS-monitoring system, and prototyped an ML model to detect forwarded DMARC traffic. He combines client-facing product work with deep technical ownership—profiling databases, optimizing APIs, and choosing storage for geo and big-data use cases. Based in Varna, Bulgaria, he thrives on continuous learning and frequently bridges frontend and backend concerns to deliver pragmatic, performant solutions.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Systems and Technologies, Bachelor's degree, Computer Systems and Technologies at Technical University of Varna
English, Bulgarian