Summary
Mike Filonov is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience and a strong track record in systems, cloud platforms, and dynamic languages, currently building software at Facebook. He has led small engineering teams and driven architecture and delivery at F5 Networks, combining deep hands-on coding across Python, C/C++, Go, Smalltalk and more with practical product and project management. His interests span software architecture, web and cloud environments, and he built Pharocloud — a Pharo Smalltalk PaaS — demonstrating both niche technical expertise and the ability to take a project from concept to hosted service. Comfortable across low-level systems, web apps and test automation, he also has experience in virtualization (ESXi, Hyper-V) and deployment tooling for cloud infrastructures. Based in Seattle with a master’s in computer science, he brings a mix of academic rigor and pragmatic engineering, including experience teaching Unix/Linux system programming.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer science, 5.0 / 5.0, Master's degree, Computer science, 5.0 / 5.0 at Tomsk State University
French, English, Russian