About
Hi! I’m Maxim
An engineer from Saint Petersburg. I lead engineering on large systems, build my own things at home and make things by hand.
- 15+
- years making software
- up to 60
- engineers in the teams I’ve led
- 100,000s
- of requests per second on platforms I’ve built
The path
From websites at a small studio to teams of teams.
Websites
Started out making websites at a small web studio.
Load
Moved on to systems that carry heavy load.
My own team
Went into leadership — first my own team.
Teams of teams
In recent years — the largest marketplaces and retail: search, catalog, logistics.
How I work
What matters most is fairness, logic and transparency.
Decisions are explained
They rest on reasons, not on “because I said so”.
Ideas, not a title
I lead with ideas and treat people as partners.
Order that helps
Clear agreements, documentation written by a person for a person, and lessons written down after every mistake.
At home
I run a small company: my own servers, my own repositories, builds and deployments, monitoring for all of it, and AI agents that work by the same rules as people. This is where I try what there’s no time for at work. It’s also where my apps come from — small and indistinguishable from the built-in ones.
By hand
When I want to make something I can touch — a 3D printer, candle molds, bas-reliefs, concrete and plaster. And for the soul — music, good games and travel.
How I can help
The easiest way to reach me is LinkedIn.
Give a talk
On systems under load, teams and order in engineering.
Take an outside look
At a project, an architecture or how a team is set up — with fresh eyes.
Dig into a hard case
About systems and teams — when it’s unclear where to start.