Summary
Maks Lyzhkov is a Big Data Engineer with five years of experience architecting distributed data platforms and productionizing analytics pipelines, currently driving data initiatives at MacPaw in Ukraine. His background spans hands-on roles from data research at LoopMe to engineering leadership in development departments, giving him a blend of research-driven curiosity and practical delivery focus. He has repeatedly moved between startups and product companies, building scalable ETL, streaming, and batch systems that bridge business needs and ML experimentation. Trained as a mining engineer with a master’s-level research background, he brings a methodical, data-first approach to problem solving that often surfaces non-obvious optimizations in data workflows.
5 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Mining engineer, researcher, Master's degree, Mining engineer, researcher at National Mining University, Dnipropetrovsk