I am experienced Software Engineer interested in distributed systems and overall systems engineering. I live in Amsterdam, Netherlands and currently work at Scribd.

• Scribd: building infrastructure and service foundations for the next services generation. gRPC foundations for inter-service communications with automated client / server definitions for Ruby and Go applications. Create foundational, well-documented terraform modules for provisioning and operating infrastructure (load balancers, deployments) and application services in a cloud native environment. Improve the observability and resilience of our platform with instrumentation, request tracing, log correlation and runtime metrics. Terraforming configurations for services at the Edge (CDN, WAF and more using Fastly). Design next generation cloud-native service mesh to handle the north-south (Internet to Scribd) and west-east (Service to Service) traffic with capabilities such as service discovery, load balancing, encryption, improved observability, traceability, and authentication.

• SensysGatso Group: improve performance of the cluster by 20% 🚀 and particular services by x2-x3 times. Re-design and re-implement the live streaming service. Helping in troubleshooting network problems in production clusters. Mentoring and helping colleagues in achieving their goals. Being a part of architecture and design group where drive the evolution of the product. Introduce distributed tracing tools and the way to instrument the code. Day-to-day working on k8s clusters, monitoring and performance tuning.

• Catawiki: backend engineering, support existing and developing new services. Advocating for Go language in the company. Establishing the standard way to build and deploy microservices in Go. Working on a Search and Discovery topics helping buyers to get the most from the Platform.

• HosingAnywhere: playing a full-stack role in the growth team. Working on a payments platform and enhancing it.

• MachineZone: developed and supported Javascript SDK to interact with flagship services developed by the company. Participated in development of a customer-facing portal, both frontend, and backend. Also participated in the development of high-load client-side applications for internal company usage. (Python, MySQL, Golang, Javascript, React).

• Echo: developed and supported Javascript SDK and rich client-side applications built on top of it. My main focus was on the evolution of Javascript SDK, implementation of new features and employing new tools. I also participated in the development of the platform to dynamically deploy client-side applications to customers' sites. Implemented a number of real-time social apps such as Comments, Polls, Media Gallery on top of Echo’s Javascript SDK. Worked with clients to improve and enhance applications and SDK. Integrated S3/Cloudfront AWS services to provide storage for application configuration files. Performed R&D work, defined strategic direction and worked with the team to adopt it. Developed an integrated client-side transport layer with graceful degradation machinery.

• Built the CLI tool to dump, index and search across the bookmarks go-nate. Supporting different languages and REPL capabilities 🌠.
• Built the CLI tool to replicate git commits from one repository to another git-replicator.

Feel free to reach me on Twitter, on Linkedin or at maksim (at) terekhin.me 📥