Maksym Solomkin
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolMaksym Solomkin is a pragmatic Software Development Engineer II with 11 years of experience building and operating distributed, highly available systems at scale, currently leading full-stack initiatives at Amazon from design through production. He has a strong track record as a tech lead—owning dozens of services, improving performance (e.g., a user-segmentation service from ~300ms to ~10ms), and eliminating recurring downtime through observability and feature toggling. Comfortable in fast-paced, cross-functional environments, he mentors engineers, runs Scrum processes, and has hands-on experience delivering revenue-driving features and high-throughput marketing systems. An active contributor to open-source tooling, he has enhanced Raycast extensions by adding web and Firefox shortcuts and improving maintainability. With a master’s in Computer Software Engineering and experience across gaming and consumer platforms, he blends production engineering rigor with a pragmatic, product-oriented mindset.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Student Big Data, Student Big Data at Kyivstar BigData SchoolStudent Computer Software Engineering, Student Computer Software Engineering at SoftServe IT AcademySystem administration, System administration at Computer Academy StepInformation Technology, Information Technology at Junior Computer Academy StepStudent Computer Software Engineering, Student Computer Software Engineering at BIONIC UniversityIgor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
English, Ukrainian
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Github Skills (24)
javascript10
raycast10
typescript10
raycasting10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
web-development10
extention10
react10
nextjs9
file-monitoring8
api8
file-watcher8
apim8
testing7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
raycast/extensions
Apr 2023 - Sep 2024
Everything you need to extend Raycast.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 PRs, 9 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Maksym primarily contributed to the "shortcuts-search" extension within the Raycast extensions repository. They implemented new features like Firefox and web app shortcuts, and improved error handling and refactoring for the web shortcut functionality. Their work included updating dependencies, modifying the user interface, and extracting and refactoring code into separate files. These changes enhanced the extension's functionality and maintainability.
everythingwindowsraycastlinuxneed
solomkinmv/hotkys
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
Collection of useful shortcuts for different applications
Contributions:6 reviews, 79 PRs, 169 pushes in 1 year 5 months
keyboard-shortcuts
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