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Mikhail Seregine

ever onward

San Francisco, California

Angel

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $5,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $50,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $25,000.00

Skills

Product Management
Survey Research
Team Building
Strategic Communications
Pricing Strategy
Market Research
Early-stage Startups
Software Development
Crowdsourcing
Usability
Web Applications
APIs
Distributed Systems
Scalability
Web Services
Software Engineering
Agile Methodologies
Mobile Applications
Product Development
Performance Tuning

Education

Investments

Fathom

Seed

Total Funding: $62M

Turing College

Seed

Total Funding: $1M

Aella

Seed

Total Funding:

Atrium LTS

Series A

Total Funding: $76M

Flexport

Series A

Total Funding: $2.2B

Wonder Workshop

Seed

Total Funding: $77M

Work Experience

Outschool

2015 - 2020

  • Co-founder

    2015 - 2020

    Inspiring kids to love learning.

Google

2010 - 2014

  • Product Manager

    2013 - 2014

    Google Consumer Surveys. Increased supported survey length from 2 to 10 questions. Complex product transformation (pricing, partners, tech) enabled us to access a much larger market.

  • Senior Software Engineer

    2010 - 2012

    Google Consumer Surveys (2011-2012) - Survey creator UI, multi-select and screening question types, A/B testing, survey export. Google Payments (2010-2011) - Tech Lead for v1 of the web In-App Payments API. Joined with the Jambool acquisition.

CircleUp

2012 - 2014

  • Advisor

    2012 - 2014

Jambool

2008 - 2010

  • Principal Engineer

    2008 - 2010

    Designed, built, and ran the Social Gold Subscriptions product. I also made a Virtual Economy Analytics prototype, wrote a code review tool in Rails, streamlined the merchant integration process, simplified merchant website architecture, set up CI/CD, conducted and wrote a company risk/threat assessment for PCI compliance.

ClayValet, Inc

2007 - 2008

  • Founder

    2007 - 2008

    Led a small, angel-funded team to develop a novel human/software workflow engine in Ruby, attempted to apply it to concierge shopping and b2b customer support problems, but did not reach product/market fit.

Amazon.com

2002 - 2006

  • Software Development Engineer

    2002 - 2006

    Amazon Web Services (2004 - 2006) Co-inventor and lead API developer on the Mechanical Turk (mturk.com), a pioneering service for programmatic micro-outsourcing. Delivered a SOAP/REST web service API, implemented parts of it in Java and Perl, set up development tools and process. Interviewed 200+ candidates. Performance and Capacity Group (2002 - 2004) Analyzed performance of retail website services. Developed components of a high-throughput monitoring system (millions of QPS) in C++, visual and statistical reporting tools in Perl. Consulted other teams on scaling, benchmarking, monitoring, and capacity planning. On call for Amazon website performance, owned troubleshooting and driving resolution of business-critical problems.

Sun Microsystems

2001 - 2001

  • SDE Intern

    2001 - 2001

    Logging standards for the SunCluster Perl management UI.

Inktomi Corp.

2000 - 2000

  • SDE Intern

    2000 - 2000

    Added Open Directory search result summaries from RDF, implemented in C++.

ASoftware / dotNow

1999 - 1999

  • Software developer

    1999 - 1999