# Michael Vinogradov > Software Engineer At WhatsApp Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/michaelvinogradov Proactive and results-driven software engineering professional, boasting a progressive experience of over 10 years in the field. Proven expertise in developing and managing cloud-based applications and microservices, augmented by a deep understanding of SQL/NoSQL solutions. Specialize in SaaS platform development, API integration, and comprehending intricate business processes. Experience in advertising technology working with large-volume data analytics. Outstanding problem-solving abilities and meticulous attention to detail coupled with a natural propensity for team collaboration. Committed to delivering high-quality results within deadline-driven environments while adapting to evolving tech trends. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ WhatsApp Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Software Engineer @ Meta Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Principal Software Engineer @ Zynga Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Mateo, California, United States ### Senior Software Engineer, Luna (ex-Bidalgo) @ Unity Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area For 6 years, I have been working in Luna (ex-Bidalgo), The all-in-one marketing platform that’s empowering app and game businesses to improve performance efficiently. The company was acquired by ironSource, which merged with Unity in Nov 2022. ### Senior Software Engineer, Bidalgo (acquired by ironSource) @ Unity Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Senior Back End Engineer , Bidalgo (acquired by ironSource) @ Unity Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Ramat Gan Area, Israel • Developed the integration with Apple Search Ads, Snapchat Ads, and Google Ads. By the end of 2018, these new channels were 40% of the company’s managed budgets. • Designed and implemented a creative solution to support Google UAC without an official API. Gave the company a competitive edge and increased Google Ads managed budget by 22% YOY. • Developed integration with Youtube API. Customers could upload video ads through our platform without going to Youtube. ### Senior Software Engineer @ ASODragon Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Herzliya Area, Israel Brought the project from idea to working product. Designed and implemented a high-load system with a database MongoDB of over 2TB. Designed and implemented distributed data crawling system based on RabbitMQ and more than 200 Amazon EC2 instances. Led a team of 3 engineers. ### Founder, Software Engineer @ Fiveil Studio Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 | Israel, Beit Dagan Led a boutique web studio. We designed, developed, and maintained more than 300 websites for small and medium size companies from various industries like retail, tourism, healthcare, finance, gambling, and real estate. We developed several internal systems for our clients: • Link Management System (with Laravel) for a digital marketing company. Automating the payment process in LMS reduced the renewal decline rate by 95%. Transparency of decision-making in the system reduced the time of "link buy" by 48% • Onboarding learning portal (with Moodle). Improved the onboarding process and reduced the onboarding time by 50%. • Internal knowledge base (with WordPress). Reduced the average time of support team response by 24% • Plugin for automated technical SEO improvements. It provides canonical URLs, meta tags, advanced XML sitemaps, title and meta description templating, Schema.org integration, and PageSpeed Insights integration. It helped hundreds of clients websites worldwide to rank higher in search engines. ### Military Service - Unit 81 @ Israeli Military Intelligence Jan 2004 – Jan 2007 ## Education ### BS in Computer science Holon Institute of Technology ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/michaelvin --- Source: https://flows.cv/michaelvinogradov JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/michaelvinogradov/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-11