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About Mikhail Kyraha

A software engineer by trade Mikhail Kyraha is versatile in the entire IT industry. His strongest skills are troubleshooting algorithms and designing data flow architectures within massively distributed systems. He can code in Python and Java in heavily parallelized data processing environments. But also comfortable with C++, Scala, R and many other programming languages.

Professional Background

Mikhail started his career in 1990s during school as an intern coder at a Research Institute of Information Technologies and Computer Science developing very low-level software for time critical applications is C and Assembly language. Later working as a web developer and network administrator he specialized in client-server remote communications. Then, when tried a role of System Analyst at a commercial bank, he gained knowledge in financial industry: monetary transactions, data encryption.

For the last couple of decades Mikhail has lived in the USA and worked as a software engineer. (See CV/Resume for details.)

Currently Mr. Kyraha does consulting with big data, cloud migrations, and machine learning. Latest projects include onboarding generative AI in clients' production processes.

Interests

Mikhail is fascinated by latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and machine learning. His passion is in harnessing tech to extract value from seemingly random data which, in turn, makes him worry about privacy in this new digital world. He believes that proper architecture and cryptography can help to protect personal data as well as business assets if implemented correctly.

Hobbies

Robots, Linux, Open Source.

Social Activities

Conversation Triggers

Must-read books

  • A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

  • The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

  • Thinking Fast And Slow by Daniel Kahneman

More books

  • The Quark and The Jaguar by Murray Gell-Mann

  • The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss

  • The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli

  • Running from Safety by Richard Bach

Movies

  • Back to the future

  • Black Mirror

  • Stranger Things

  • Westworld

Motto

I can do it, show me how.