Maksim Gutman
Senior Engineering Manager at Affirm, Inc.
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMaksim Gutman is a Senior Engineering Manager based in San Francisco with 12 years of experience leading backend and payments engineering through rapid growth and acquisition. He blends hands-on technical depth—co-founding and serving as CTO of a startup acquired by Walmart—with managerial experience at consumer-focused companies like Affirm and Coffee Meets Bagel. Maksim has repeatedly taken teams from early product stages to scale, shipping reliable systems in high-throughput domains such as payments and matchmaking. Known for pragmatic leadership, he pairs product-minded engineering with operational rigor to reduce risk during growth phases. His academic background spans UCSC, UC Berkeley, and Carnegie Mellon, reflecting a strong foundation in both systems and software management.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Management of Information & Systems, Master of Science (MS), Management of Information & Systems at University of California, BerkeleyMaster of Science (MS), Software Management, Master of Science (MS), Software Management at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Management of Information & Systems, Bachelor of Science (BS), Management of Information & Systems at University of California, Santa Cruz - Jack Baskin School of Engineering
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Github Skills (14)
leanplum7
wrapper5
api5
zendesk-api5
python-bindings5
python-client4
api-client4
python4
zendesk3
aws-services3
aerospike3
cli2
aws2
aws-cli2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Coffee-Meets-Bagel/python-leanplum
Nov 2018 - Oct 2019
Python bindings for Leanplum API (https://docs.leanplum.com/reference#api-introduction)
Contributions:2 releases, 8 PRs, 5 pushes in 11 months
apipythonleanplumpython-bindingspython3
picatcha/adsnative_devops_challenge
Feb 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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