Maksym Tkach
Chief Technology Officer at Frogo
Ukraine
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Top SchoolMaksym Tkach is a hands-on CTO and principal architect with 11 years of experience building high-throughput, cloud-native systems from fintech and adtech to cybersecurity and fraud prevention. Currently leading Frogo’s engineering organization, he architected a distributed, Go-based microservices platform on Kubernetes that processes millions of transactions daily with sub-second responses and 99.99% availability. He has deep expertise in real-time analytics, ML-driven fraud detection, and high-performance storage (Aerospike, Redis) and messaging (NATS, Kafka, RabbitMQ), and has repeatedly driven 10x scaling while cutting operational costs through smart infrastructure design. Maksym’s background spans low-level optimizations (HLL, goroutine tuning), blockchain integrations, and building scoring engines and automated risk frameworks, reflecting a rare mix of systems-level rigor and product-focused delivery. Based in Ukraine, he combines hands-on engineering with leadership of 30+ engineers, and often documents architectures using Arc42 and ArchiMate to keep complex systems auditable and evolvable.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Engineering at The National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine (NMetAU)
Русский, Українська, English
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Github Skills (96)
golang10
go10
docker10
ecosystem9
matrix9
statistics9
gradient-descent9
penetration-testing9
minecraft9
security9
moby9
hacking9
assemble9
php9
driver9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
InsideGallery/core
May 2025 - May 2026
Contributions:7 releases, 8 reviews, 10 PRs in 11 months
patch-notes/mate
Jun 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:33 PRs, 142 pushes, 32 branches in 4 months
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