Maksim Golivkin
CTO Founding Engineer at Empower Sleep
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMaksim Golivkin is a product-focused CTO and founding engineer with 15 years of experience building consumer and health tech products from Android clients to large-scale fulfillment systems. Based in San Francisco, he led growth and fulfillment engineering at Instacart—managing teams of 22, running hundreds of A/B tests, and delivering measurable business impact—before founding Empower Sleep to apply technology to sleep disorders. He blends hands-on engineering (mobile, backend, integrations) with people-first leadership that prioritizes team output and happiness. A seasoned prospector in the Bay Area startup scene, he has repeatedly bet on early-stage ventures and helped several startups through product and technical stages. His background spans enterprise integration, logistics, and digital health, and he brings a pragmatic founder mindset to building scalable, user-focused systems.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master Software services design and engineering, Master Software services design and engineering at Aalto UniversityBachelor Software Engineering, Bachelor Software Engineering at Vilniaus universitetas / Vilnius University
English, Russian, Lithuanian
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Github Skills (41)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sizzlelab/side
May 2011 - Apr 2012
Contributions:164 commits in 11 months
mataanin/android-devices
Jun 2012 - Mar 2014
Contributions:12 commits in 1 year 9 months
statisticsandroid-uimanagersandroidkotlin
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