Maksim Fomkin
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Estonia
Summary
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Top SchoolMaksim Fomkin is a Senior Software Engineer based in Estonia with a decade of experience blending software development and site reliability engineering at companies including Microsoft and Evolution Gaming. He has led SRE teams and migration projects—most notably moving infrastructure from Xen/AoE to KVM/NFS and replacing Puppet with SaltStack—improving reliability and operational efficiency. Skilled in automation, monitoring, and scripting (Bash/Python), he has a track record of reducing alert noise and integrating operational workflows with tools like Slack and Salesforce. Comfortable in both hands-on system administration and large-scale cloud/enterprise environments, Maksim bridges R&D and operations to deliver secure, production-ready services. He brings practical ingenuity from early freelance Linux systems work through to senior roles at major tech firms.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Petrozavodsk State University (PetrSU) 
Russian, English, German, Estonian
Github Skills (34)
podman10
docker10
parser10
containerization10
chroot10
containerd10
pager10
ports10
command-line10
highlighting10
macos10
package-manager10
container9
router9
git-diff9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
foamkeen/macports-ports
Feb 2021 - Aug 2021
The MacPorts ports tree
Contributions:9 pushes, 6 branches in 6 months
portsmacosmacports-portsmacports
foamkeen/nut-docker
May 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:9 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
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