Maksym Pieshkov
Staff DevOps Engineer at Transact Campus
Cork, Ireland
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Top SchoolMaksym Pieshkov is a Staff DevOps Engineer based in Cork with 12 years delivering cloud-native and full-stack solutions across startups and enterprise products. He architects and automates end-to-end CI/CD and infrastructure (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, OctopusDeploy, Terraform, AKS) and builds bespoke cloud automation microservices in Node.js, PowerShell and Bash. His background spans PHP and WordPress at scale through to Kubernetes, GCE/AWS administration and search/messaging systems like Elasticsearch and RabbitMQ, giving him a rare mix of legacy CMS expertise and modern cloud engineering. At Transact Campus he progressed from Cloud Automation Engineer to Staff, shaping Pipeline-as-Code and OctopusDeploy step templates while helping product teams adopt repeatable delivery patterns. He contributes to the popular Meta Box WordPress plugin, enhancing autocomplete and custom HTML fields to support JSON URL resources and richer excerpts—demonstrating a continued hands-on approach to open-source and product-grade integrations. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, performance-oriented solutions that bridge development and operations.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
National University of Internal Affairs
English, Russian, Ukrainian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
wordpress10
autocomplete10
php10
custom-fields10
javascript10
metaboxes10
html9
json8
css5
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
wpmetabox/meta-box
Mar 2015 - Apr 2015
The best plugin for WordPress custom fields and custom meta boxes
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 1 comment in 7 days
Contributions summary:Maksym primarily contributed to the `meta-box` WordPress plugin, focusing on enhancements to the autocomplete field and the introduction of a custom HTML field. Their work involved modifying the backend logic, including PHP code within `inc/helpers.php` and `inc/fields/autocomplete.php`, to improve functionality. They also updated the frontend aspects by modifying the `js/autocomplete.js` file. These improvements included the ability to use URL resources for JSON data, show excerpts, and handle custom HTML input.
custom-fieldsmetawordpress-adminmetadatameta-boxes
udx/lib-wp-phpunit
Jun 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:18 commits in 4 months
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