Mikhail Seregine
ever onward
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Co-founder
2015 - 2020
Inspiring kids to love learning.
Outschool is a marketplace of live online classes for kids that connects learners, parents, and teachers together.
Raised $240,220,000.00 from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Tiger Global Management, Union Square Ventures, Coatue, FundersClub, SV Angel, Bond and Reach Capital.
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.
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Advisor
2012 - 2014
CircleUp is an investment platform that provides capital and resources to innovative, early-stage consumer brands.
Raised $253,000,000.00 from Michigan’s state pension fund and Pacific Life.
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.
Jambool operates SocialGold, an industry virtual monetization platform that enables developers to create and manage virtual currency.
Raised $6,000,000.00 from Bay Partners and Madrona.
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.
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.
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
Raised $8,108,000,000.00 from DBS Bank and Mizuho Bank.
SDE Intern
2001 - 2001
Logging standards for the SunCluster Perl management UI.
Sun Microsystems is a multinational vendor of computers, computer software and hardware, and information technology services.
Raised $1,700,000.00 from Kleiner Perkins.
SDE Intern
2000 - 2000
Added Open Directory search result summaries from RDF, implemented in C++.
Software developer
1999 - 1999
Education
BS
1998 - 2002