# Lena Mikhaylova

> Senior Software Engineer

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/lenamikhaylova

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Agora
Jan 2025 – Present

### Senior Frontend Engineer @ Timewave
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025
- Owned and led all frontend development, from wireframing and prototyping to launch and post-release iteration.
- Delivered 4 production web applications for Timewave’s decentralized protocol, featuring portfolio performance
visualizations, automated treasury management tools, and dynamic UI generation from configuration files.
- Published React and TypeScript npm packages to accelerate blockchain frontend development, and created open-
source resources showcasing integration with Timewave’s Valence protocol.
- Standardized product development by designing and implementing scalable UI component library and design system.
- Engineered fault-tolerant, zero-downtime backend service for ingesting blockchain events and exposing RESTful APIs.

### Founder, Solo Engineer @ ResumeKnight
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024
- Designed and launched consumer-grade resume editor with Postgres, Stripe, React, and NextJS.

### Senior Software Engineer, Founding Team @ koodos labs
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States
- Launched consumer application with small team (1 of 3 engineers), grew to 2,000 daily users and 10,000 signups.
- Built critical functionality such as onboarding, social graph, recommendations, and pairing third party mobile apps.
- Optimized third party data sync from over 1 hour to less than 1 minute by migrating process to auto-scaling
architecture with AWS Lambda and AWS SQS.
- Deployed multi-stage release process for iOS, reducing release time from several days to a few minutes.
- Led team-wide adoption of comprehensive app-wide analytics, enabling user analysis and informed decision making.

### Senior Product Engineer @ Ridgeline
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | New York, United States
- Launched, extended, and maintained microservice to manage reconciliation of internal and external financial records such as transactions and daily account balances, across thousands of accounts and transactions.
- Led re-architecture initiative to consolidate 3 services into single process, with generalized and customizable logic.
- Deployed and maintained complex, interactive, data-rich web pages to optimize viewing data and performing actions.
- Optimized UI state management to decrease reaction time and enable easy optimistic updates and snappy UX when performing actions across hundreds of rows.
- Contributed to company component library and documentation by extending complex UI components to support additional use cases.
- Owned and advocated for best UI practices and commitment to highest standard of coverage and maintainability.
- Led initiative to overhaul UI testing to significantly decrease time required to write, debug, and maintain UI tests.
- Coordinated hygiene project to clean up 30 deprecated APIs across multiple services to simplify codebase.
- Mentored and onboarded four junior developers new to the team, investing in strengthening relationships and increasing output velocity.

### Product Engineer @ Ridgeline
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | New York, United States

### Production Support Engineer @ Morgan Stanley
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | New York, New York, United States
- Ensured application stability and responded to software vulnerabilities for high volume, business critical applications in a dynamic trading floor environment.
- Deployed infrastructure monitoring scripts, enabling proactive responses to systemic issues.
- Automated manual, error-prone support tasks, reducing the risk of human error and ensuring reliable trading operations and increasing team efficiency.

### Technology Analyst @ Morgan Stanley
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | New York, New York
- Extended framework to automate the monitoring of data availability in the Fixed Income trading space.
- Selected to present and discuss my work to 200+ attendees in the 2017 Summer Analyst Technology Showcase.

### Student Technician @ Rutgers Business School
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Rutgers Business School
- Assisted Rutgers Business School faculty with the integration of technology in their classrooms. 
- Gained expertise in troubleshooting technology-related issues for both students and staff.

### Aresty Research Assistant @ Rutgers University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Greater New York City Area
- Conducted laboratory research to engineer a silicon-based polymer.
- Collaborated with lead researchers to design experiments and analyze results.
- Presented and discussed methods, results, and future directions at the 2015 Undergrad Research Symposium.


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Rutgers University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/lena-mikhaylova
- GitHub: https://github.com/elenamik

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Last updated: 2026-04-01