Maksim Solovjov is an Engineering Team Lead with 11 years of experience building high-performance, maintainable software across finance and consumer platforms. He currently leads engineering for options market making at Citadel Securities, having progressed from developer to team lead on low-latency trading systems. Prior roles at Facebook (Spark AR Studio) and Bloomberg highlight his strengths in application infrastructure, undo/networking systems, and developer productivity tooling. He pairs a strong academic background from Oxford and Glasgow with practical TDD and hiring experience, having taught TDD and designed recruitment challenges. Based in Miami, he brings a software-craftsman mindset focused on elegant, performant code and has a track record of turning complex domain problems into reliable, production-ready systems. An under-the-radar strength is his blend of meta-programming know-how and developer tooling experience that improves team velocity and code quality.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Software Engineering, Distinction, Master of Science - MS, Computer Software Engineering, Distinction at University of Oxford
Maths 100, IT 100, English 98, Maths 100, IT 100, English 98 at Klaipeda Azuolynas Gymnasium
Deep Learning Foundations Nanodegree, Deep Learning Foundations Nanodegree at Udacity
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Software Engineering, First Class Honours (1:1), Bachelor's Degree, Computer Software Engineering, First Class Honours (1:1) at The University of Glasgow
Contributions:4 PRs, 92 pushes, 6 branches in 4 months
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Maksim Solovjov - Engineering Team Lead at Citadel Securities