Maksym Novozhylov
Product Architect Lead Developer, Web Services Platform A.k.a Upwork API
Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolMaksym Novozhylov is a Product Architect and Lead Developer with 12+ years designing and operating high-availability REST APIs and B2B platforms, currently leading the Web Services Platform (Upwork API). He brings deep RDBMS and system-administration expertise and ships reliable, test-driven services across a polyglot stack—regularly coding in PHP, Go, Node, Ruby, Perl, Java, and Python. His background spans hands-on systems work from FreeBSD daemons and billing engines to API architecture and technical documentation, giving him a rare combination of low-level systems knowledge and API product design. Based in Heidelberg, he is multilingual (English, German, Ukrainian, Russian), which he leverages for cross-border collaboration and B2B integrations. Outside work he’s an avid motorsport and basketball enthusiast, reflecting a competitive, detail-oriented approach to engineering.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
English, German, Ukrainian, Russian
Stackoverflow
311reputation
3kreached
29answers
0questions
Github Skills (52)
python10
java10
php10
upwork-api10
java-bindings10
python-bindings10
js10
nodejs10
ruby9
oauth9
go8
gnome8
metadata8
gnome-shell8
perl8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
upwork/ruby-upwork
May 2015 - Oct 2021
Ruby bindings for Upwork API
Contributions:12 releases, 53 commits, 20 PRs in 6 years 6 months
rubyupwork-api
odesk/node-odesk
Sep 2014 - Sep 2015
Contributions:3 releases, 7 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year
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