Summary
Maksim Prokopev is a Senior System Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in HPC platforms, automation, and CI/CD for large-scale scientific and enterprise environments. Based in Yerevan and working with EPAM, he designs and maintains HPC clusters and user-facing tools like JupyterHub, Open OnDemand, and CryoSPARC, leveraging Linux, Ansible, Terraform, OpenStack, Slurm, and Weka. He began his career as a network engineer building distributed VPN and media services, which gave him a strong operational mindset and a practical approach to troubleshooting and customer value. Passionate about continuous improvement, he focuses on fast feedback loops, clean documentation, and mentoring newcomers to raise team capability. Quirky but effective, he describes himself as an “IaC rabbit hunter” who enjoys experimenting with new tools and keeps CI/CD pipelines long but fast.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University "LETI"
Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Theoretical and Mathematical Physics at Chelyabinsk State University