Man sitting on ledge
Hi, I'm Miki Pokryvailo
I'm a software engineer based in NYC, focused on backend and product. I love early stage startups and problems — I'm often the person unafraid to hack on and ship the weird idea that becomes a 10x improvement. Most recently, I did this as the first hire at Nile.
More about me
At Nile, I built a lot of our initial product, introduced row-level security and wrote an HN-viral blog about it. When we pivoted to a tenant-aware database, I built our SQL parsing framework, worked on the Rust database sync engine, helped define the SDK experience, made CI go fast, and more.

Before Nile, I worked at Confluent and MadHive on API infra.

Outside of work, I'm a home-renowned chef 👨‍🍳 and salsa dancer 💃.

You can reach me at [email protected].