Maksim Zinal
Cloud Databases Lead Product Architect
Moscow, Moscow City, Russia
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Top SchoolMaksim Zinal is a Cloud Databases Lead Product Architect and distributed SQL evangelist with 13 years of experience designing and implementing data management systems for cloud and enterprise customers. Based in Moscow, he combines hands‑on backend and DevOps work—contributing to the open source YDB distributed SQL database—with product‑level architecture and customer success consulting at Yandex Cloud and YDB. His background spans core database sales and technical advisory at IBM, deep systems engineering, and high‑load banking software, giving him a rare mix of customer-facing product strategy and low-level systems craftsmanship. Maksim often bridges gaps between deployment automation, TLS/security tooling, and storage/client optimizations, reflecting a practical focus on reliability and operability in distributed data platforms.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist, Mathematical methods and operations research in economy, Specialist, Mathematical methods and operations research in economy at Tver State University
Russian, English, French
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Github Skills (27)
distributed-systems10
cpp10
distribute10
devops10
distributed-database10
sql-database10
c-language9
tls129
tls139
databases9
mtls9
database9
cprogramming-language9
libtls9
grpc8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ydb-platform/ydb
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
YDB is an open source Distributed SQL Database that combines high availability and scalability with strong consistency and ACID transactions
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:35 reviews, 4 commits, 27 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Maksim primarily contributed to the back-end infrastructure and system configurations of the YDB project. Their work included enhancing the database's configuration capabilities by incorporating host configurations and updating the password prompt functionality. Furthermore, they implemented TLS support within the ydb-dstool utility and improved the S3 client's thread pool creation. Additionally, they engaged in DevOps tasks through the deployment of TLS certificate generation scripts and systemd service file templates.
dbmsdistributed-sql-databaseydbdatabaseconsistency
zinal/Db2-Russian
Dec 2020 - May 2022
Contributions:161 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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