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Mykhailo (Mike) Severa

Hi, I'm Mike, a Principal Product Engineer and Entrepreneur with 15+ years building and shipping web and mobile products, now focused on AI-native development: multi-agent systems, RAG, vector search, and real-time voice. I love creating things and thrive where speed and technical research matter. My strengths are fast learning and a product-oriented mindset. Outside of work, you'll find me spending time with my family or learning piano and drums.

Experience

Principal Product Engineer, AI Leadership (Feb 2026)

Architected and led a small team building an AI-native leadership platform: a multi-agent system (interview, aggregation, follow-up, chat, and weekly check-in agents), RAG over a vector store, and real-time voice — on a NestJS + GraphQL + PostgreSQL backend and a Next.js frontend. Built on a spec-driven, agentic workflow with codified guardrails to keep AI-generated code production-grade.

    Stack
    AI Agents
    Vercel AI SDK
    Braintrust
    RAG
    Turbopuffer
    mem0
    ElevenLabs
    TypeScript
    NestJS
    Apollo GraphQL
    GraphQL Subscriptions
    PostgreSQL
    TypeORM
    Redis
    Next.js
    React
    Tailwind
    Docker
    Vercel
    Sentry
    OpenSpec
    Cursor
    Claude Code
    Codex
    Product Engineer, Composer AI (Nov 2025)

    Built an AI-powered Gmail assistant that reduces email workload by generating context-aware, tone-aligned replies directly inside the inbox.

    • Composer AI - an AI agent that reads thread context, retrieves relevant information (past emails, sender history, calendar events), and drafts thoughtful, tone-accurate replies instantly through the web app and Chrome extension.
    Stack
    AI Agents
    LangChain + LangGraph
    OpenAI
    Browser extensions
    TypeScript
    NodeJS
    React
    MongoDB
    Google Cloud
    Co-founder & Product Engineer, Gogue AI (May 2025)

    I co-founded and built this product end to end: mobile and web, a microservice backend (Node.js + Python), AI agent orchestration, a real-time voice agent, and GCP deployments.

    • Gogue AI- A mobile app that lets you create deeply personalized audio lectures based on credible books and research, tailored to your specific problems. It lets you explore, save, and resume audio lectures with full background playback. When you want to dig deeper, you can chat with an AI about your notes or even talk to a real-time voice agent that captures insights and creates notes as you speak. It feels like listening to a podcast, studying with a tutor, and keeping structured notes—all in one place.
    Stack
    AI Agents
    Vector Search
    LangChain + LangGraph
    OpenAI
    Text to Speech
    Speech To Text
    Python
    TypeScript
    NodeJS
    React
    MongoDB
    Kubernetes
    Google Cloud
    more
    Co-founder & Product Engineer (CTO), Launcher Labs (former Newzip) (Jan 2021)

    Responsibilities: Make decisions in a company lifecycle. Design solution for every assumption we had. Design, build and extend a reusable back-end framework. Configure and integrate Google Cloud Services. Setup CI/CD pipeline and write deployment scripts to deploy a containerized apps on a Kubernetes cluster. Research, learn and integrate any new tech. Write tons of code, unit tests and do a code review Recruite devs, manage the team and tasks.read full story

    • Launchcaster- Platform designed to fill a crucial gap in the Web3 ecosystem—providing a space for new crypto projects to showcase themselves and attract early adopters.
    • Frameboard- Crypto-powered content curation platform, inspired by Pinterest, where users can earn by curating content.
    • Launcher Actions- We transitioned to simplifying the process of building and remixing apps on existing smart contracts. Our vision was to create a platform similar to Dune, but for crypto mini-apps.
    • Launcher PWA- Progressive web app (PWA) combined with a token-curated registry, allowing users to bet on and invest in apps they want to see built.
    • Maindrop- Platform that simplifies the process of creating and sending NFT gifts to anyone, whether they have a crypto wallet or not.
    • Sweetheartz- Valentine-themed NFT project allows users to mint unique ERC721 tokens directly into someone else's wallet, serving as both a proof of concept and a demonstration of the potential to send NFTs directly.
    • Newzip- Online marketplace for neighbourhood advice. It connects local experts and people who are seeking for advice for some city part, and answer questions, “What is the best neighborhood?”, “What are the schools there”, etc.
    • Newzip livestream app- React Native app, where local experts can take or upload videos and start livestreams on the go. The app also allows users to sell products during livestreams, offering a seamless shopping experience for viewers.
    • Offload- Marketplace designed specifically for excess building supplies.
    Stack
    TypeScript
    JavaScript
    React
    NodeJS
    NextJS
    NestJS
    Apollo GraphQL
    Microservices
    MongoDB
    Firebase
    Redis
    RabbitMQ
    React Native
    PWA
    Docker
    Kubernetes
    Google Cloud Services
    Vercel
    Travis CI
    Ethereum L1/L2
    more
    Front-end Tech Lead, Mokriya (Aug 2018)

    Led the front-end team and development for kw.com project.

    • KW.com - property search for one of the largest real estate companies in the U.S. and globally
    Stack
    JavaScript
    React
    NodeJS
    Apollo GraphQL
    Microservices
    Google Cloud Services
    GitHub
    Founder & Product Engineer, Liberbee (Aug 2017)

    I’m the founder and was involved in all directions. My main responsibilities were team management, product design and architecture of the whole system (REST API and client application based on Nodejs and React/Redux).

    • Liberbee - marketplace to sell, swap and buy books
    Stack
    Javascript
    React/Redux
    Sass
    Webpack
    NodeJS
    Express
    MongoDB
    Redis
    Elastic Search
    Kibana
    DigitalOcean
    GitLab
    Full-stack developer, Product researcher, Forbytes (Nov 2012)
    • Trademax - E-commerce multichannel public web solution and back-office system for one of the biggest furniture companies in the Nordic region.
    • Hotel Management Saas - E-Hotel Management application which allows managing internal processes of the hotel, managing bookings, rooms, room types, generating statistic etc.
    Stack
    Javascript
    React/Redux
    Vue.js
    SMACSS
    Webpack
    NodeJS
    Express
    GitHub
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    AI Engineering

    I build AI-native products end to end — multi-agent systems, RAG, vector search, and real-time voice. Recent work includes a 9-agent platform on the Vercel AI SDK with Braintrust evals, RAG over a Turbopuffer vector store, mem0 memory, and ElevenLabs voice. I also run a spec-driven, agentic engineering workflow (OpenSpec across Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex).

    Foundations: Stanford/DeepLearning.AI —