Maksym Ostapenko
Head Of Growth at Smartcat
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolMaksym Ostapenko is a technology product leader with 11 years of experience and a strong track record of building zero-to-one B2B SaaS products and scaling them to meaningful ARR growth. Currently Head of Growth at Smartcat, he combines hands-on engineering roots with product and GTM leadership—having hired and led product teams, shipped ML-driven features, and tripled ARR at prior companies. He thrives at the intersection of rapid prototyping, data-informed discovery, and product monetization, and has shipped real-time data collaboration and NLP/AI products in trust-sensitive environments. An active contributor to open-source (notably enhancements and tests to the popular react-ga analytics library), Maksym blends practical frontend engineering chops with strategic product vision. He holds an MBA from Chicago Booth and is a servant leader who emphasizes learning, autonomy, and cross-functional collaboration. Passionate about gaming as a cultural and economic frontier, he brings curiosity and creative perspective to product strategy.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) at The University of Chicago Booth School of BusinessBachelor’s Degree Computer Information Systems, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Information Systems at Illinois Institute of Technology
English, Ukrainian, Russian
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Github Skills (13)
javascript10
google-analytics10
react10
testing9
jtest9
jes9
google-analytics-api6
gmail6
google-bigquery6
google-api6
google-apps-script6
universal-analytics6
cookie6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
react-ga/react-ga
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
React Google Analytics Module
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 5 comments in 15 days
Contributions summary:Maksym primarily focused on modifying the `react-ga` library to support plugin arguments and address code corrections. They updated the `require` method to handle options instead of arguments, and made corrections to the documentation. Additionally, the user added tests for the `require` method and other functionality in the library, resolving conflicts to ensure code stability. These changes indicate a focus on improving functionality, addressing edge cases, and testing the Google Analytics integration with React.
google-analyticsreactreact-google-analyticsjavascript
max-ostapenko/puppeteer-automations
Oct 2020 - Jun 2026
Some interesting browser automation use-cases implemented
Contributions:21 PRs, 85 pushes, 34 branches in 5 years 9 months
browser-automation
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