Summary
Max Filenko is a Forward Deployed Engineer based in Hamburg with 10 years of experience building scalable, secure production systems and turning prototypes into reliable automation engines for customers. He blends deep infrastructure and security roots with hands-on backend and architecture work—having led splits of monoliths into microservices, built hardened financial platforms, and guided teams through CI/CD and cloud-native practices. At DISCO he helped pivot early ML/ChatGPT proofs-of-concept into transformative legal-tech automation, and previously shaped mobility platforms and developer workflows at SHARE NOW and FREE NOW. Comfortable across languages and stacks (Node.js, Java/Kotlin, Go, Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS), he pairs pragmatic engineering with a security-first mindset cultivated in banking and ops roles. Colleagues rely on him to convert ambiguous requirements into auditable, production-ready solutions while keeping technical debt in check.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Computer Engineering, 4.8, Master's Degree, Computer Engineering, 4.8 at Donec'kij Nacional'nij Tehnicnij Universitet
English, English at Thomas English
First Certificate in English (FCE), English, B, First Certificate in English (FCE), English, B at The London School of English (LSE)
English, German, Polish