Maksym Taran
Staff Software Engineer at Databricks
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolMaksym Taran is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building developer tools and AI-driven platforms, currently working on Genie at Databricks to make data querying and analysis more accessible. He was a major contributor to GitHub Copilot and led development of Google's Cider web-based IDE, scaling it to hundreds of thousands of lines of code and broad internal adoption. Maksym excels at shipping production-grade integrations across editor ecosystems, optimizing model utilization, and instrumenting experiments to measure real user impact. He has a track record of turning research prototypes into extensible, cross-platform products and mentoring teams through rapid growth. Based in Scottsdale, AZ, he blends full-stack systems thinking with a rare focus on developer ergonomics at the intersection of AI and tooling.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Mathematics and Computer Science, BS, Mathematics and Computer Science at Harvey Mudd College
Russian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean
Github Skills (149)
cloud-computing10
python10
arabic-nlp10
entity-linking10
cost-optimization10
deep-learning10
gpu10
cython10
fairness-ml10
serverless10
distributed-training10
job-scheduler10
industrial10
editor10
multicloud10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
mtaran/mtaran
Jul 2021 - Dec 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 5 months
METR/pyhooks
Jun 2024 - Aug 2024
A library that METR agents use to communicate with Vivaria.
Contributions:2 reviews, 9 PRs, 12 pushes in 2 months
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