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Maksym Mishchenko

Software Engineer II @ Microsoft Security

Summary

Software Engineer II at Microsoft Security, working on Identity & Application Governance. 5+ years of experience building backend systems, developer tooling, and security-focused infrastructure across financial services and enterprise software. Originally from Ukraine, based in Prague.

Experience

Microsoft Security

2025–Now

Software Engineer II — Identity & Application Governance, Prague

  • Build Identity & Application Governance capabilities that support secure enterprise access and application-governance workflows.
  • Translate governance and trust-boundary requirements into backend systems, automation, and practical security controls.

EPAM Systems

2022–2025

Software Engineer → Senior Software Engineer — investing platform DevEx, licensing & package management

  • Built developer-experience tooling for an investing platform, including licensing libraries for license validation, package management, and license accountability.
  • Improved manual licensing workflows, reducing tickets handed to human reviewers by 70%.
  • Partnered directly with developers to troubleshoot issues, gather feedback, and turn recurring pain points into library and workflow improvements.

Stora Enso

2019–2022

Java Developer — CI/CD regression gates, invoice processing, WebSphere MQ

  • Built the Selenium regression-test suite used as a CI/CD pull-request gate for the whole team before pull requests were approved.
  • Worked in a two-person team on the invoice-processing system, expanding it to support an additional department and coordinating requirements directly with the PM.
  • Owned delivery beyond implementation: deployments, testing, on-call outage support, WebSphere MQ integration work, and test-coverage improvements.

Selected Projects

mcpgate

Security gateway for MCP tool calls with policy enforcement, audit trails, and reverse-channel prompt-injection defenses.

GoMCPAI SecuritySQLite

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