Mikhail Kolesnik
Co-founder, Koniva
Seattle, WA
Leavenworth, WA

✅ 14+ Years’ Leadership of Full-Stack Teams and Global Projects in Fortune 200 Organizations
✅ Passion for Designing and Launching Complex, Large-Scale, Customer-Facing Products
✅ Record of Building Best-in-Class Teams for Technical Innovation in Dynamic, High-Growth Settings

“Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”

▶️ I GET THINGS DONE. Projects rarely progress to plan, so my ability to adapt to change and work within a dynamic or ambiguous environment is critical to our success. I form my own opinions so that I can pressure-check estimates and designs for proposed products. I am biased for action and expect the same from others, and I make long-term investments in people development to improve team capacity.

▶️ MY LEADERSHIP STYLE is about communicating expectations for quality and timelines. I have a coaching mindset, so I help team members identify problems and discover solutions on their own after pondering questions. I manage with people-first empathy, so my team knows I care about their experience and their opinions. Together, we deliver results in a culture of transparency and continuous improvement.

▶️ LARGE-SCALE, CUSTOMER-FACING PRODUCTS are my developer’s passion. I love enabling complicated systems to operate more efficiently. My strong software engineering IC background empowers me to build new product features and optimize marketplace logic for package delivery. Similarly, my background with global companies and start-ups provides big-picture managerial understanding.

▶️ KEY SKILLS
Program and Project Management
Technology Transformation
Global Team Leadership
Analytics and Innovative Problem Solving
Team Building and Development
Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
Large Language Models (LLMs)
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

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