Maksim Davydov
Senior Software Engineer at The Apache Software Foundation
Moscow, Moscow, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMaksim Davydov is a senior backend engineer with ~5 years’ experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems, currently delivering core features for Apache Ignite at Sberbank Technology. He specializes in high-performance, fault-tolerant infrastructure—shipping rolling upgrades, modular binary serialization, CDC improvements, and advanced monitoring/profiling for production clusters. Maksim combines hands-on JVM performance analysis and incident resolution with open-source collaboration, contributing fixes and enhancement proposals directly to the notable apache/ignite project. His background in physics and research-grade simulation/analysis gives him a rigor in measurement-driven optimization and a knack for translating complex system behavior into practical mitigations. He’s known for doubling CDC throughput in production Kafka integrations and for making observability and diagnostics first-class in mission-critical deployments.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Physics, Diploma with Honours, Master's degree, Physics, Diploma with Honours at Moscow State University
English, Russian
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Github Skills (16)
apache-ignite10
javas10
caching10
distributed-systems10
java10
big-data8
sql8
performance-monitor7
testing7
database7
performance-measurement7
performance-monitoring7
performance-tuning7
databases7
performance-analysis7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
apache/ignite
Apr 2024 - May 2026
Apache Ignite
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:229 reviews, 69 PRs, 210 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Maksim contributed to the Apache Ignite project by fixing a logging issue related to connection attempts in the TCP discovery module. They implemented a new flag to skip existing caches during cache creation. They also fixed permissions for the consistency repair command in the control utility, and added conflict resolver metrics. Furthermore, the user removed obsolete code related to MVCC in JDBC classes and made several other minor code adjustments and refactorings.
apache-igniteignitedistributed-sql-databaseiotosgi
maksaska/MCEGENpiN_radcorr
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
Event builder for Pi^{0}p and Pi^{+}n channels of meson electroproduction reaction
Contributions:8 releases, 2 PRs, 106 pushes in 2 years 5 months
pythonreactionbuilderchannelsmeson
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