Identity & security systems
Current work in Microsoft Security, with a focus on governance, trust boundaries, and secure enterprise workflows.
See the mcpgate case study for policy enforcement, audit trails, and prompt-injection defenses.
Professional snapshot
Maksym Mishchenko
Software Engineer II @ Microsoft Security
I build security-minded systems, developer tooling, and AI-agent automation.
Software Engineer II at Microsoft Security working on Identity & Application Governance. I focus on backend systems, security controls, automation, and practical AI-agent workflows that make engineering teams safer and faster.
What I work on
Developer tooling
Experience building CI/CD, package management, licensing, and workflow automation across enterprise environments.
See the resume for Microsoft Security, EPAM, and Stora Enso experience.
Agentic AI & automation
Hands-on work with MCP, AI-agent governance, personal automation, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
See OpenClaw and mcpgate-related portfolio work.
Proof of work
A few direct links that show the type of systems, trade-offs, and delivery work I care about.
Flagship case study
mcpgate
Security gateway for MCP tool calls with policy enforcement, audit trails, and reverse-channel prompt-injection defenses.
Selected projects
mcpgate
Security gateway for MCP tool calls with policy enforcement, audit trails, and reverse-channel prompt-injection defenses.
mmishchenko.dev
This portfolio — built with Next.js 16, MDX blog with interactive animated components, RSS feed, and automated devlog publishing pipeline.
Timeline at a glance
Ukraine → Czechia
2016Moved to study Computer Science
BSc Computer Science
2016–2020Technical University of Ostrava
Stora Enso
2019–2022Java Developer — CI/CD regression gates, invoice processing, WebSphere MQ
EPAM Systems
2022–2025Software Engineer → Senior Software Engineer — investing platform DevEx, licensing & package management
AWS Certified
2023Cloud Practitioner certification
Microsoft Security
2025–NowSoftware Engineer II — Identity & Application Governance, Prague
Current focus
What I am paying attention to right now, kept in sync with the rest of the site.
Working at Microsoft Security on Identity & Application Governance
Building AI agent automation with OpenClaw — personal assistant ecosystem
Writing about engineering workflows and AI agents on this blog
Deepening security expertise — cloud identity, zero trust, AppSec
Based in Prague, Czechia
Working stack
Languages
JavaC#PythonTypeScript
AI & Agents
LLM OrchestrationMCPClaude APIOpenAI APILangChainAutonomous Agents
Frontend
Next.jsReactTailwind CSS
Backend
.NETFastAPISpring Boot
Cloud
AzureAWS
Tools
GitGitHub ActionsDockerVercelTelegram API