Michael Chugunov
With more than 15 years of experience in the software development industry, I can consult you or your team in many technical and business areas, including high-load application performance, building resilient architecture, and setting up the development process. I've worked in areas such as telemedicine, ride-sharing, telecom, insurance, etc., so I hope my knowledge may be relevant to your needs.
REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS
• Reduced active defect backlog from ~150 bugs to 10 medium-or-lower defects in 8 weeks by triaging 150+ issues, prot...
• Reduced active defect backlog from ~150 bugs to 10 medium-or-lower defects in 8 weeks by triaging 150+ issues, protecting engineering capacity, and tightening requirement quality gates.
• Eliminated dev/staging drift by standardizing delivery on Kubernetes, Terraform, and ArgoCD, with readiness/liveness-gated rollback on failed deployments.
• Led release readiness across product, legal, accounting, QA, and engineering; stabilized the payments subsystem for first customer transactions.
• Architected and built the company ATS as a serverless Node.js + Vue 3 platform supporting hiring, staffing, payroll...
• Architected and built the company ATS as a serverless Node.js + Vue 3 platform supporting hiring, staffing, payroll, billing, and internal workflow automation.
• Built an AI-assisted candidate evaluation pipeline using AWS Textract, ChatGPT, and Azure speech processing, cutting initial CV screening time by 40% while improving candidate searchability and recruiter-engineer handoffs.
• Led technical discovery, solution design, and staffing for client engagements; conducted 200+ technical interviews and mentored engineers on delivery standards and E2E testing.
• Replaced the prior engineering team and increased delivery throughput from 3 features per year to 6 major features ...
• Replaced the prior engineering team and increased delivery throughput from 3 features per year to 6 major features in 6 months while reducing monthly engineering run cost from ~$150k to ~$60-80k.
• Re-architected a 6-repository Java/Kotlin system into a modular monolith, reducing change risk and enabling a predictable near-monthly release cadence.
• Cut executive reporting turnaround from 1-2 weeks to 3 days, then helped transition to on-demand self-service reporting; led PointClickCare EMR integration.