Maksim Stepachev
Senior Software Engineer at Synthesized
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMaksim Stepachev is a senior backend engineer based in the UK with over 10 years’ experience designing and shipping distributed systems and microservices. He has deep Java expertise and a proven track record on high-scale projects—from transaction and reconciliation logic in Apache Ignite contributions to building data replication and real-time services for banks and ad platforms. At GridGain he worked on core data reconciliation utilities and cloud control tooling, and today at Synthesized he focuses on API-driven synthetic data generation for ML and QA workflows. Maksim combines production-grade engineering (rate limiters, Stripe integrations, Kafka replication) with a pragmatic approach to reliability and performance, and has a history of fixing subtle concurrency and serialization issues in a major open-source project.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University
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Github Skills (16)
javas10
in-memory-database10
databases10
caching10
big-data10
distributed-systems10
disk-cache10
memory-database10
web-cache10
memory-cache10
object-cache10
java10
database10
data-management9
data-platform9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
apache/ignite
Jan 2019 - Nov 2021
Apache Ignite
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 31 commits, 62 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Maksim primarily contributed to the Apache Ignite project by addressing various issues, including bug fixes and performance improvements. They worked on fixing potential deadlocks, resolving deserialization problems, and ensuring data consistency. The contributions also involved handling CRC errors and refactoring code related to distributed caching and data storage. The user demonstrated expertise in Java, distributed systems, and caching mechanisms.
data-management-platformin-memory-databasedistributed-sql-databaseapache-ignitenetwork-client
crowdforce/crowdforce
Jun 2020 - May 2022
Contributions:1 review, 30 PRs, 76 pushes in 2 years
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