Summary
Maksim Krou is a backend-focused software engineer and freelance technical leader with a decade of experience building high-load systems, data pipelines, and finance-oriented products across traditional and crypto domains. He combines deep Golang and Python expertise with practical experience productionizing LLM-powered systems—designing RAG pipelines, multi-agent architectures, evals, and observability for real-world deployment. As a hands-on manager he has built teams and engineering orgs from scratch, cut billing and launch times dramatically, and led cross-functional remote teams to measurable product and reliability gains. His background includes migrating large services to cloud-native platforms, integrating blockchain back offices, and optimizing for accuracy, latency, and cost in AI stacks. Based in Almaty, Kazakhstan, he pairs product ownership with applied research instincts—often turning prototype LLM ideas into resilient production services.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at Institute of Physics and Technology
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Ural Radio Engineering College
Russian, English