Mikhail Seregine

Co-founder

2015 - 2020

Inspiring kids to love learning.

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.

Advisor

2012 - 2014

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.

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.

SDE Intern

2001 - 2001

Logging standards for the SunCluster Perl management UI.

SDE Intern

2000 - 2000

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

Software developer

1999 - 1999